23 Health-Adjusted Life
Expectancy: Concepts and
Estimates
J. A. Labbe
1 Introduction ........................................................................ 418
2 Background ......................................................................... 418
2.1 Health Expectancies (HE) ............................................................ 418
2.2 Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) ........................................... 419
2.3 Calculating Hale ....................................................................... 419
3 Hale Estimation .................................................................... 422
4 Conclusion .......................................................................... 423
Summary Points .................................................................... 423
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