Healthy Life Expectancy in Korea by using the Disability Weights of Diseases

This study is designed to calculate 'healthy life expectancy' as a health performance index for the development and assessment of Korea's health policies and to present it as the basic data for such purposes. Healthy life expectancy can be estimated in diverse ways. WHO and the OECD have also used various analysis techniques. This study applied WHO's analysis method based on the disability weights of diseases. The analysis system can effectively resolve difficulties in reflecting the quality of life in accordance with the severity of disabilities.

To this end, this paper studied a variety of research and methodologies related to the calculation of healthy life expectancy to identify healthy life expectancy for Koreans. Then,

presenting a research methodology, it calculated healthy life span in Korea. The last chapter discussed limitations in research and proposed ways to produce better indices in the future.

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

CHAPTER 2 Preliminary Research

CHAPTER 3 Analysis Methods

    1. GBD Classification of Diseases for Application of Disability Weights

    2. Accompanying Disease-based Adjustment

    3. Disability Weight-adjusted Number of Patients by Disease

    4. Disability Weight-adjusted Number of Patients by Gender and Age

CHAPTER 4 Analysis Results

    1. 2011 Healthy Life Expectancy

    2. 2010 Healthy Life Expectancy

    3. Healthy Life Expectancy: 2010 ~ 2011

CHAPTER 5 Limitations in Research and Conclusion