Decomposing the gaps in healthy and unhealthy life expectancies between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians: a burden of disease and injury study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The gaps in healthy life expectancy (HLE) between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians are significant. Detailed and accurate information is required to develop strategies that will close these health disparities. This paper aims to quantify and compare the causes and their relative contributions to the life expectancy (LE) gaps between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous population in the Northern Territory (NT), Australia.

Methods

The age-cause decomposition was used to analyse the differences in HLE and unhealthy life expectancy (ULE), where LE = HLE + ULE. The data was sourced from the burden of disease and injury study in the NT between 2014 and 2018.

Results

In 2014-2018, the HLE at birth in the NT Indigenous population was estimated at 43.3 years

SUBMITTER: Zhao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11241960 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature