Trends in healthy life expectancy among older Brazilian women between 1998 and 2008

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作者
Nepomuceno, Marilia Regina [1 ]
Turra, Cassio Maldonado [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Fed Minas Gerais, Fac Ciencias Econ, Ctr Desenvolvimento & Planejamento Reg, Programa Posgrad Demog, BR-31270901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
[2] Univ Fed Minas Gerais, Fac Ciencias Econ, Ctr Desenvolvimento & Planejamento Reg, Dept Demog, BR-31270901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
来源
REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA | 2015年 / 49卷
关键词
Women; Life Style; Health Behavior; Quality of Life; Sickness Impact Profile; Active Life Expectancy; SAO-PAULO; MORTALITY; MORBIDITY;
D O I
10.1590/S0034-8910.2015049005472
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
OBJECTIVE: To analyze conditional and unconditional healthy life expectancy among older Brazilian women. METHODS: This cross-sectional study used the intercensal technique to estimate, in the absence of longitudinal data, healthy life expectancy that is conditional and unconditional on the individual's current health status. The data used were obtained from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicilios (National Household Sample Survey) of 1998, 2003, and 2008. This sample comprised 11,171; 13,694; and 16,259 women aged 65 years or more, respectively. Complete mortality tables from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics for the years 2001 and 2006 were also used. The definition of health status was based on the difficulty in performing activities of daily living. RESULTS: The remaining lifetime was strongly dependent on the current health status of the older women. Between 1998 and 2003, the amount of time lived with disability for healthy women at age 65 was 9.8%. This percentage increased to 66.2% when the women already presented some disability at age 65. Temporal analysis showed that the active life expectancy of the women at age 65 increased between 1998-2003 (19.3 years) and 2003-2008 (19.4 years). However, life years gained have been mainly focused on the unhealthy state. CONCLUSIONS: Analysis of conditional and unconditional life expectancy indicated that live years gained are a result of the decline of mortality in unhealthy states. This pattern suggests that there has been no reduction in morbidity among older women in Brazil between 1998 and 2008.
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