Trends in disease-free life expectancy at age 65 in Spain: Diverging patterns by sex, region and disease.

ABSTRACT: Life expectancy in Spain is among the highest in the world. Nevertheless, we do not know if improvements in health conditions at older ages have followed postponements of death. Previous studies in Spain show a stable trend in years lived in ill health in the past. In this paper we investigate changes between 2006, 2012 and 2017 in life expectancy with and without disease at age 65 in Spain and, for the first time, in Spanish regions, which have autonomous powers of health planning, public health and healthcare. Results show that, at the country level, disease-free life expectancy reduced between 2006 and 2017 in Spain. This was explained by an expansion of most diseases except for some cardiovascular and respiratory chronic conditions. However, at the regional level the evolution was diff

SUBMITTER: Zueras P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7657566 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature