Average life expectancy and life years lost

Dear all!

Friday, September 7th, from 15.00-17.00

Dr. Vladimir Canudas-Romo 
(Associate professor of School of demography at College of arts and social sciences of Australian national university, Australia)
will present the talk

"Average life expectancy and life years lost"

The term “life expectancy” represents the “average age at death” or the “average lifetime lived” by members of a life table cohort. Although life expectancy by definition is an average measure, it is common to find the term “average life expectancy” in the scientific literature, particularly in medical and epidemiological journals. We look at multistate life tables and show that it is important to make a clear use of “average life expectancy” to denote the expected survival time in a given state when its members enter at different ages. Furthermore, the simple mathematical formulations of the “average life expectancy” also allow us to calculate an “average life years lost”. Looking at a “health-disease” model and at Danish data, we show the disadvantage way in which persons with mental health disorders live/die in a population.

more details 

Time: 15.00 - 17.00
Venue: Bolshoy Trehsvyatitelsky pereulok, 3, Room 438
Working language: English

If you need to order a pass to the building of the HSE, please inform about your participation by e-mail  (Vera Sokolova) by 12.00 on September 7, 2018.


Best regards,
Dr. Vera Sokolova

Project Manager,
International Laboratory for Population and Health, Higher School of Economics
 Moscow, 109028, B. Trekhsvyatitelsky per., 3, room 444
Phone: +7 495 772-95-90 (15103)
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