Assessing population aging and disability in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Malawi?
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2013
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PLOS Medicince
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University of Cape Town
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The study of Payne and colleagues is, to our knowledge, the first empirical study to report disability states, and to estimate transitions between them, for Malawi's population of 45 years of age and older. The study provides detailed estimates for healthy life expectancy (HALE, an estimate of equivalent years of good health), which differ from those recently published by the Global Burden of Disease study (GBD) [2],[3]. The GBD estimates that in Malawi 50-year old women can expect to live 76.1% of their remaining 23.4 years in good health and 50-year old men can expect to live 76.7% of their remaining 20.6 years in good health [2]. In contrast, Payne and colleagues estimated that women aged 45 years spend only 42% of 28.0 remaining years in good health, and men 59% of 25.4 years.
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Stuck, A. E., Tenthani, L., & Egger, M. (2013). Assessing population aging and disability in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Malawi?. PLoS medicine, 10(5), e1001441. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001441