Global patterns of healthy life expectancy in the year 2002
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Healthy life expectancy – sometimes called health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) – is a form of health expectancy indicator that extends measures of life expectancy to account for the distribution of health states in the population....
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2004-12-01
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Series: | BMC Public Health |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/4/66 |