Using mortality follow-up of surveys to estimate social inequalities in healthy life years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The estimation of healthy life years (HLY) by socio-economic status (SES) requires two types of data: the prevalence of activity limitation by SES generally extracted from surveys and mortality rates by SES generally derived from a linkage between the SES information in population databases (census, register) and mortality records. In some situations, no population-wide databases are available to produce mortality rates by SES, and therefore some alternatives must be explored. This paper assesses the validity of calculating HLY by SES using mortality rates derived from a linkage between surveys and mortality records.

Methods

TWO SURVEYS WERE CHOSEN TO EXPLORE THE VALIDITY OF THE PROPOSED APPROACH: The Belgian Health Interview Survey (HIS) and the Belgian Survey on

SUBMITTER: Charafeddine R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4030465 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature