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Dear Colleagues,
Last months, many colleagues asked for a Platform-Template
to estimate-calculate the Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) directly from the Life
Tables of the Human Mortality Database (HMD).
We are happy to present the best and simplest as of today
Template in Excel format by providing the HLE and the Healthy Life Years Lost
(HLYL) by expanding the HMD Life Table directly from the provided data.
The estimate of HLE from well-organized data sets like that
from HMD assures well formatted results for all the time period of data
collected. For several countries, the estimates are close to those provided by
the World Health Organization (WHO) as HALE estimates. Our method estimates the
HLE as far as Life Table Data are available, contrary to HALE estimates
covering only the last 20-30 years. Instead, we estimate the HLE from 1751 to
today for Sweden following to HMD data sets and accordingly for the other
countries included in HMD data.
What we propose is to use our provided extended forms for
HMD Life Tables. Our Template is easily applied to all the data sets for a
country (males, females and total).
Download the appropriate Excel Template at http://www.asmda.es/demographics2023.html
and related presentation from Skiadas-Dimotikalis-2022-Expanding the Life Tables to include the Healthy Life Expectancy. Applications for several countries are also provided at the same web address
where is the announcement of the forthcoming international workshop.
With my best regards,
Christos H
Skiadas
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