International Handbook of Health Expectancies

Preface: Carol Jagger, Eileen Crimmins, Yasuhiko Saito, Renata Tiene De Carvalho Yokota,  Herman Van Oyen and Jean-Marie Robine.- Part I Monitoring trends and gaps: 1 Operationalization of Concepts of Health and Disability: Renata Tiene De Carvalho Yokota and Herman Van Oyen.- 2 Trends in health expectancies: Jean-Marie Robine, Carol Jagger, Eileen Crimmins, Yasuhiko Saito and Herman Van Oyen.- 3 An analysis of macro-level determinants of geographic disparities in health expectancies: Yuka Minagawa and Carol Jagger.- 4 Monitoring social differentials in health expectancies: Emmanuelle Cambois, Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Mark Hayward and Wilma Nusselder.- Part II Advances in data and metholodolgy: 5 Data Sources for Health Expectancy Research: Mary Beth Ofstedal.- 6 Attributing causes to disability: Wilma J Nusselder, Caspar C Looman, Herman Van Oyen and Renata TC Yokota.- 7 Decomposing gaps in healthy life expectancy: Alyson A. van Raalte and Marília R. Nepomuceno.- 8 Assessing theimpact of risk factors on health expectancy: Henrik Brønnum-Hansen.- 9 Microsimulation of health expectancies, life course health, and health policy outcomes: Sarah B. Laditka, James N. Laditka and Carol Jagger.- 10 Forecasting health expectancy - what the future might hold: Carol Jagger and Andrew Kingston.- Part III Quantity and quality of life: synergy and/or trade-off: 11 Gender differences in healthy and unhealthy life expectancy: Vanessa Di Lego, Paola Di Giulio and Marc Luy.- 12 Self-rated health: when and how to use it in studies among older people?: Henrike Galenkamp, Arjan W. Braam, Martijn Huisman and Dorly J.H. Deeg.- 13 Health expectancy in policy: the use and uptake of the Healthy Life Years indicator and the Global Activity Limitation Indicator by the European Commission and Member States: Petronille Bogaert, Martin McKee and Jean-Marie Robine.- 14 Policy relevance of health expectancy in health promotion: Toshiyuki Ojima.- 15 Utility of Health Expectancy when Evaluating

Prof Carol Jagger is the AXA Professor of Epidemiology of Ageing in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. Her research programme spans demography and epidemiology with a focus on mental and physical functioning in ageing and has three themes: Understanding variations in Healthy Active Life Expectancy; Disability and Functioning in Later Life; and Ageing Population Projections for Policy. Acknowledged as the leading UK researcher on healthy life expectancy, she regularly provides evidence on this topic to various government committees. She is a Chartered Statistician, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the Gerontological Society of America, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

Eileen Crimmins is the AARP Chair in Gerontology, and University Professor at the Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California in Los Angles. She is a University Professor at USC. She co-directs the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health, the NIA sponsored Biomarker Network, and the Multidisciplinary Research in Gerontology Training Program at USC. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She received her PhD in Demography from The University of Pennsylvania. Crimmins' research is in the area of factors promoting healthy aging and healthy life expectancy which examines the interaction of trends in life expectancy and population health. She has received the Kleemeier award for research from the Gerontological Society of America and the Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award from the Section on Aging and the Lifecourse of the American Sociological Society.

Yasuhiko Saito is a Professor at the College of Economics and Population Research Institute at Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. (Sociology) from the University of Southern