Women's excess unhealthy life years: disentangling the unhealthy life years gap.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Compared to men, women live longer but have more years with disability. We assessed the contribution of gender differences in mortality and disability, total and by cause, to women's excess unhealthy life years (ULYs).

Methods

We used mortality data for France 2008 from Eurostat, causes of death from the CépiDc-INSERM-database; and disability and chronic conditions data from the French Disability Health Survey 2008-09. ULYs were calculated by the Sullivan method. The contributions of mortality and disability differences to gender differences in ULY were based on decomposition analyses.

Results

Life expectancy of French women aged 50 was 36.3 years of which 19.0 were ULYs; life expectancy of men was 30.4 years of which 14.2 were ULYs. Of the 4.8 excess ULYs

SUBMITTER: Nusselder WJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6761840 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature