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Understanding the drivers of healthy life expectancy
A report summarising several pieces of statistical analysis and findings from a rapid literature review aimed at exploring the drivers of healthy life expectancy.
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The report assesses the relative impact of mortality rates and self-reported health on healthy life expectancy (HLE) and details the key factors which are most influential in driving these 2 components.
HLE has been identified as a key outcome measure in assessing the extent to which health is improving and disparities are narrowing. There is a need to better understand what drives HLE to help inform policy.
The report includes:
- the results of a scenario modelling analysis, used to assess the relative contributions of mortality rates and self-assessed good health prevalence on healthy life expectancy
- the results of a decomposition analysis, used to assess the contribution of mortality rates and self-reported good health prevalence to changes in healthy life expectancy over time
- the results of a logistic regression analysis used to assess the strength of associations between health, behavioural and socioeconomic factors and self-reported poor health taken from the 2016 Health Survey for England
- the results of a rapid literature review used to assess the risk factors most strongly associated with self-reported poor health
- estimates of risk factors contributing to years of life lost taken from the Global Burden of Disease
- a summary of the public health implications of the findings
Updates to this page
Published 1 June 2023