Levels and Trends of Health Expectancy: Understanding its Measurement and Estimation Sensitivity

Project Information

LETHE

Grant agreement ID: 725187

DOI

10.3030/725187

Project closed

EC signature date 25 July 2017

Start date 1 September 2017

End date 31 August 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 713 352,50

EU contribution

€ 1 713 352,50

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OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN
Austria

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Trends in activity limitations from an international perspective: differential changes between age groups across 30 countries

Author(s): Beller, Johannes; Luy, Marc; Giarelli, Guido; Regidor, Enrique; Lostao, Lourdes; Tetzlaff, Juliane; Geyer, Siegfried
Published in: Journal of Aging and Health, Issue 35(7–8), 2023, Page(s) 477–499, ISSN 0898-2643
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/08982643221141123

Cross-sectional estimates of population health from the survey of health and retirement in Europe (SHARE) are biased due to health-related sample attrition

Author(s): Magdalena Muszynska-Spielauer; Martin Spielauer
Published in: SSM - Population Health, Issue 20 (2022), 2022, Page(s) 101290, ISSN 2352-8273
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101290

The effect of sample attrition in the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions on the estimates of Eurostat’s Healthy Life Years

Author(s): Magdalena Muszynska-Spielauer; Martin Spielauer
Published in: European Journal of Public Health, Issue Vol. 33, No. 3, 2023, Page(s) 378–380, ISSN 1101-1262
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad069

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

Author(s): Markus Sauerberg, Michel Guillot, Marc Luy
Published in: Population Health Metrics, Issue 18/1, 2020, ISSN 1478-7954
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12963-020-00220-5

Rating Health and Rating Change: How Canadians Rate Their Health and Its Changes

Author(s): Amélie Quesnel-Vallée; Patrick Lazarevic
Published in: Journal of Aging and Health, Issue Volume 35, Issue 7-8, 2022, Page(s) Pages 535-542, ISSN 0898-2643
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/08982643221119654

Gender disparities in health at older ages and their consequences for well being in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author(s): Marília Nepomuceno, Vanessa Di Lego, Cássio Turra
Published in: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Issue Volume 19, 2021, Page(s) 191–213, ISSN 1728-5305
Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
DOI: 10.1553/populationyearbook2021.res2.1

Well-Being Adjusted Health Expectancy: A New Summary Measure of Population Health

Author(s): Magdalena Muszyńska-Spielauer, Marc Luy
Published in: European Journal of Population, Issue online first 2022; print: European Journal of Population volume 39, 4 (2023), 2022, ISSN 0168-6577
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10680-023-09648-5

Comparing Cohort Survival in Good Health: A Research Note on Decomposing Sex Differentials in the United States

Author(s): Markus Sauerberg; Vladimir Canudas-Romo
Published in: Demography, Issue 59 (6), 2022, Page(s) 2013-2024, ISSN 0070-3370
Publisher: Population Association of America
DOI: 10.1215/00703370-10349971

Sex Differences in Alcohol Attributable Mortality in Poland, 2002-2018

Author(s): Magdalena M. Muszynska-Spielauer
Published in: Epidemiological Review, Issue 75(2), 2021, Page(s) 235-247, ISSN 2545-1898
Publisher: National Institute of Public Health NIH – National Research Institute
DOI: 10.32394/pe.75.22

Socio-economic environment and survival in patients after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI): An observational study for the City of Vienna

Author(s): Spitzer, Sonja; di Lego, Vanessa; Kuhn, Michael; Roth, Christian; Berger, D.
Published in: BMJ Open, 2022, ISSN 2044-6055
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058698

The Sensitivity of the Healthy Life Years Indicator: Approaches for Dealing with Age-Specific Prevalence Data

Author(s): di Lego, Vanessa; Sauerberg, Markus
Published in: Comparative Population Studies, Issue 48, 2023, Page(s) 117-150, ISSN 1869-8999
Publisher: Wiesbaden Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung
DOI: 10.12765/cpos-2023-06

The impact of population's educational composition on Healthy Life Years: An empirical illustration of 16 European countries.

Author(s): Markus Sauerberg
Published in: SSM - Population Health, Issue Volume 15, 2021, 2021, ISSN 2352-8273
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100857

Biases in Assertions of Self-Rated Health: Exploring the Role of the Respondent, Country of Residence, and Interviewer

Author(s): Lazarevic, Patrick
Published in: Comparative Population Studies, Issue 48, 2023, ISSN 1869-8999
Publisher: Wiesbaden Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung
DOI: 10.12765/cpos-2023-04

Health expectancy indicators: what do they measure?

Author(s): Vanessa di Lego
Published in: Cadernos de Saúde Coletiva, 2021, ISSN 1414-462X
Publisher: Cadernos de Saúde Coletiva
DOI: 10.1590/1414-462x202199010376

The impact of interpersonal reporting heterogeneity on cross-country differences in Healthy Life Years in Europe

Author(s): Luy, Marc; Di Giulio, Paola; Minagawa, Yuka
Published in: European Journal of Public Health, 2023, ISSN 1101-1262
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad142

The impact of increasing education levels on rising life expectancy: a decomposition analysis for Italy, Denmark, and the USA

Author(s): Marc Luy, Marina Zannella, Christian Wegner-Siegmundt, Yuka Minagawa, Wolfgang Lutz, Graziella Caselli
Published in: Genus, Issue 75/1, 2019, ISSN 2035-5556
Publisher: SpringerOpen
DOI: 10.1186/s41118-019-0055-0

Life Expectancy: Frequently Used, but Hardly Understood

Author(s): Marc Luy, Paola Di Giulio, Vanessa Di Lego, Patrick Lazarevič, Markus Sauerberg
Published in: Gerontology, Issue 66/1, 2020, Page(s) 95-104, ISSN 0304-324X
Publisher: S. Karger AG
DOI: 10.1159/000500955

The gender health gap in Europe’s ageing societies: universal findings across countries and age groups?

Author(s): Alina Schmitz, Patrick Lazarevič
Published in: European Journal of Ageing, 2020, ISSN 1613-9372
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10433-020-00559-6

Bedeutung des Gesundheitsindikators bei der Analyse der Gesundheitsfolgen informeller Pflege

Author(s): Judith Kaschowitz, Patrick Lazarevic
Published in: Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, Issue 53/1, 2020, Page(s) 10-16, ISSN 0948-6704
Publisher: Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00391-019-01663-8

Diverging ideas of health? Comparing the basis of health ratings across gender, age, and country

Author(s): Patrick Lazarevič, Martina Brandt
Published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2020, Page(s) 112913, ISSN 0277-9536
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112913

Uncovering the gender health data gap

Author(s): Vanessa di Lego
Published in: Cadernos de Saúde Pública, Issue 39 (7), 2023, ISSN 1678-4464
Publisher: Escola Nacional de Saude Publica
DOI: 10.1590/0102-311xen065423

Other (10)

The Role of Education for Assessing Population Health: An Analysis of Healthy Life Expectancy by Educational Attainment for 16 European Countries

Author(s): Markus Sauerberg
Published in: Vienna Institute of Demography Working Papers, Issue 05/2020, 2020
Publisher: Vienna Institute of Demography
DOI: 10.1553/0x003ca943

Understanding the cross-sectional association between life expectancy and healthy life years: the CroHaM hypothesis

Author(s): Marc Luy
Published in: Vienna Institute of Demography Working Papers, Issue 03/2020, 2020
Publisher: Vienna Institute of Demography

A Note on the Concept of the Equivalent Length of Life

Author(s): Magdalena M. Muszynska-Spielauer, Jacques Silber
Published in: Demographic Research, Issue 43/1, 2021
Publisher: Demographic Research

Health Expectancy in Austria

Author(s): Markus Sauerberg, Marc Luy
Published in: Annual EHLEIS Country Report, Issue 12, 2019
Publisher: EHLEIS

Well-being Adjusted Health Expectancy - a new summary measure of population health

Author(s): Magdalena M.Muszynska-Spielauer, Marc Luy
Published in: Vienna Institute of Demography Working Papers, Issue 1/2021, 2021
Publisher: Vienna Institute of Demography
DOI: 10.1553/0x003cb424

European Demographic Datasheet 2020

Author(s): Tomas Sobotka, Krystof Zeman, Sonja Spitzer, Claudia Reiter, Vanessa di Lego, Dilek Yildiz, Caner Özdemir, Anne Goujon, Bernhard Binder-Hammer, David E. Bloom, Victoria Y. Fan, Vadim Kufenko, Osondu Ogbuoji, Klaus Prettner, Gavin Yamey, Francisco Rowe, Martin Bell, Aude Bernard, Elin Charles-Edwards, Sergei Scherbov
Published in: European Demographic Datasheet, 2020
Publisher: Vienna Institute of Demography

Non-Health Influences on Generic Health Ratings: Comparing the Susceptibility of Self-Rated Health (SRH) and the Minimum European Health Module (MEHM) to Biases Due to Optimism, Hypochondriasis, and Social Desirability

Author(s): Lazarevic, P., Brandt, M., Luy, M., Berghammer, C.
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Plattform für Umfragen, Methoden und empirische Analysen (PUMA)

European Demographic Datasheet 2018

Author(s): Sobotka, Tomas, Zeman, Krystof, di Lego, Vanessa, Goujon, Anne, Hammer, Bernhard, Loichinger, Elke, Sauerberg, Markus, Luy, Marc, Rengs, Bernhard
Published in: AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VIENNA INSTITUTE OF DEMOGRAPHY, 2018
Publisher: Vienna Institute of Demography

Stalling of mortality in the United Kingdom and Europe: an analytical review of the evidence

Author(s): Murphy, Michael; Luy, Marc; Torrisi, Orsola
Published in: Social Policy Working Papers, 2019
Publisher: LSE Department of Social Policy

Measurement and improvement of population health: Thoughts of a demographer

Author(s): Luy, Marc
Published in: Joint Academy Day 2021 - Royal Society of Canada / Austrian Academy of Sciences; Akademie im Dialog, Issue 24, 2021, Page(s) 105-113
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences

Book chapters (3)

Entwicklung der gesunden Lebensjahre in Deutschland: Kompression versus Expansion der Morbidität und die Bedeutung des Gesundheitsindikators

Author(s): Luy, Marc
Published in: Grünbuch Alternde Gesellschaft II: Altern - nicht nur eine Frage des Alters. Neue Perspektiven auf ein längeres Leben, Issue No 15 /June 2022, 2022, Page(s) 20-27, ISSN 2512-6172
Publisher: Andreas Edel, Mahalia Thomas

The Male-Female Health-Mortality Paradox

Author(s): Vanessa di Lego, Patrick Lazarevič, Marc Luy
Published in: Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging, 2019, Page(s) 1-8, ISBN 978-3-319-69892-2
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_798-2

Gender Differences in Healthy and Unhealthy Life Expectancy

Author(s): Vanessa Di Lego, Paola Di Giulio, Marc Luy
Published in: International Handbook of Health Expectancies, Issue 9, 2020, Page(s) 151-172, ISBN 978-3-030-37666-6
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-37668-0_11

Monographic books (1)

Was misst Self-Rated Health? - Die Basis subjektiver Gesundheit und Unterschiede nach Geschlecht, Alter und Kohorte in Europa und Kanada

Author(s): Lazarevic, Patrick
Published in: 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-28026-0
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-28026-0