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The cross-sectional average length of healthy life (HCAL): a measure that summarizes the history of cohort health and mortality.

Markus SauerbergMichel GuillotMarc Luy
Published in: Population health metrics (2020)
Albeit the differences between HE and HCAL are small, we found some empirical examples in which the two indicators led to different conclusions. It is important to note, however, that the measurement of health and the data quality are much more important for the healthy life years indicator than the choice of the variant of the Sullivan method. Nonetheless, we suggest to use HCAL in addition to HE whenever possible because it widens the spectrum of empirical analyses and serves for verification of results based on the highly sensitive HE indicator.
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