Concept
Healthy Life Expectancy
Also Known As HALE, health adjusted life expectancy
Public Health
The average number of years a person can expect to live in full health, adjusting ordinary life expectancy downward for years lived with disease or disability, tracked by the World Health Organization as HALE, health adjusted life expectancy.
Facts
First Described YearSourced to the subject's own account First Described Era2001, when the World Health Organization began publishing healthy life expectancy (HALE) estimates through its Global Health Observatory, defining HALE as the average years a person can expect to live in full health. 2 Concept ClassPublic health, population statistics 2 Connections
Associated With
Source World Health Organization Official Site
In Branch
Source World Health Organization Official Site
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Healthy Life Expectancy
WikipediaLead sectionQuote, Lead section
Since 2001, the World Health Organization has published statistics called healthy life expectancy (HALE), defined as the average number of years that a person can expect to live in full health.
2. World Health Organization Official Site
World Health OrganizationGlobal Health Observatory indicator metadata registry, Healthy life expectancy (HALE), Definition
Average number of years that a person can expect to live in "full health", if he or she were to pass through the remaining years of life exposed to the sex- and age-specific mortality and morbidity prevailing at the time, for a specific year, in a given country, territory, or geographic area.
- In Branch: Public Health
- Associated With: Life Expectancy
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