The socioeconomic distribution of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in Chile

Abstract Background Life expectancy (LE) has usually been used as a metric to monitor population health. In the last few years, metrics such as Quality-Adjusted-Life-Expectancy (QALE) and Health-Adjusted-Life- Expectancy (HALE) have gained popularity in health research, given their capacity to captu...

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Main Authors: Manuel Antonio Espinoza, Rodrigo Severino, Carlos Balmaceda, Tomas Abbott, Baltica Cabieses
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-08-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01972-w