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Health expectancies and the ICF

Presented at the Meeting of WHO Collaborating Centres for the FIC, Cologne, Germany, October 24, 2003. Health expectancies and the ICF. Health expectancies. Population health status indicators Combining information on: Length of life (mortality) Quality of life (health)

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Health expectancies and the ICF

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  1. Presented at the Meeting of WHO Collaborating Centres for the FIC, Cologne, Germany, October 24, 2003 Health expectancies and the ICF RJM Perenboom, senior reseracher

  2. Health expectancies • Population health status indicators • Combining information on: • Length of life (mortality) • Quality of life (health) • Independent of size and composition of population • Suited for comparison between groups and over time Health expectancies and the ICF

  3. Tools needed for comparison • Same concepts of health • Same methods to collect data • Same instruments to measure health (questionnaires, format, wording, response categories, cut-off points) • Same method of calculation Health expectancies and the ICF

  4. HE-classification system Health expectancies and the ICF

  5. HE according to ICF Health expectancies and the ICF

  6. Trends 1989-2000 for males Health expectancies and the ICF

  7. Trends 1989-2000 for females Health expectancies and the ICF

  8. Conclusions • Classification system needs updating to ICF • Comparing results on conceptual level • DFLE: • USA: increase • UK: increase • France: increase • Finland: increase • Seeing/hearing: international data not available Health expectancies and the ICF

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