Health life expectancy: community health partnerships

Males

Chart 1 and the accompanying Table 1  (97KB) show life expectancy (LE) and healthy life expectancy (HLE) at birth for the 40 community health partnership (CHP) areas in Scotland. Only data for the 5-year period 1999-2003 are shown, based on 5 years of data on deaths and populations, and a single year of data for self-assessed health from the Scotland Census for 2001 (the middle year).

• East Dunbartonshire CHP had the highest male LE at birth (76.7 years), and North Glasgow and East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnerships the lowest (67.3 and 67.2 years respectively).
• HLE at birth broadly followed the same pattern across the 40 CHPs as LE at birth. East Dunbartonshire, Aberdeenshire and Perth & Kinross had the highest male HLE (all 70.8 years), and North Glasgow and East Glasgow the lowest (56.4 and 56.0 years respectively). This means that a boy born during 1999-2003, subject to the self-assessed health and mortality patterns for East Glasgow during that period, would be expected to live in a healthy state for nearly 15 years less than a similar baby experiencing the patterns for nearby East Dunbartonshire.
• Orkney, Shetland and Aberdeenshire CHPs had the shortest period expected to be spent in ‘not good’ health (LE minus HLE); 5.0 years. By contrast, North Glasgow and East Glasgow had the longest (10.9 and 11.2 years respectively).
• As expected, the 95% confidence intervals for LE and HLE at birth were widest for the three island CHPs with small populations (Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles).

Females

Chart 2 and the accompanying Table 2  (85KB) show the comparable data for LE and HLE at birth for females for the 40 CHP areas in Scotland.

• Orkney and Shetland CHPs had the highest female LE at birth (81.6 and 81.1 years respectively), and East Glasgow and North Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnerships the lowest (75.5 and 74.7 years respectively).
• HLE at birth broadly followed the same pattern across the 40 CHPs as LE at birth. Orkney had the highest female HLE (76.1 years), and North Glasgow and East Glasgow the lowest (61.6 and 61.5 years respectively). This means that a girl born during 1999-2003, subject to the self-assessed health and mortality patterns for East Glasgow during that period, would be expected to live in a healthy state for nearly 15 years less than a similar baby experiencing the patterns for Orkney.
• Orkney CHP had the shortest period expected to be spent in ‘not good’ health (LE minus HLE); 5.5 years. By contrast, North Glasgow and East Glasgow had the longest (13.1 and 14.0 years respectively).
• As expected, the 95% confidence intervals for LE and HLE at birth were widest for the three island CHPs with small populations (Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles).

Further information

Table 3 provides the life tables for males and females  (2,267KB) for the 40 CHP areas in Scotland, based on the 5-year period 1999-2003 used for LE and HLE at birth above and in the Scottish health and wellbeing profiles. These allow the user to look at LE and HLE at ages other than birth (with 95% confidence limits). Also shown for each age group are: the population estimate, number of death registrations, proportion of population surviving to a specific age, number reporting SAH, proportion with ‘not good’ health, and period expected to be spent in ‘not good’ health.

The technical paper  (155KB) provides further information on life tables and methodology, data sources, geography, etc.