Healthy life expectancy: references

Technical paper for these web pages

Burlison A. Healthy life expectancy: technical paper (Version 4). Scottish Public Health Observatory, NHS Information Services (ISD), NHS Scotland. 2011. (279KB)

Other references

Clark D, McKeon A, Sutton M, Wood R. Healthy life expectancy in Scotland. Information and Statistics Division, Common Services Agency, NHS Scotland, 2004. (324KB)

Jagger C, Gillies C, Moscone F, et al, and the EHLEIS team. Inequalities in healthy life years in the 25 countries of the European Union in 2005: a cross-national meta-regression analysis. Lancet 2008; published online.

Macdonald AS, Straughn J, Sutton M. Healthy life expectancy measurement in Scotland. British Actuarial Journal 2006;12(II):327-394. (no web version available)

Mathers CD. Healthy life expectancy in 191 countries, 1999. Lancet 2001;357:1685-1691.

Wood R, Sutton M, Clark D, McKeon A, Bain M. Measuring inequalities in health: the case for healthy life expectancy.Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2006;60:1089-1092.

World Health Organization. Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Final report: Closing the gap in a generation - Health equity through action on the social determinants of health. 2008. (Part 1, Chapter 2 of this report compares (in Table 2.1) male life expectancy at birth in selected countries and small areas, including data for Calton and for Lenzie North in Glasgow in Scotland.)