Assessing population aging and disability in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Malawi?

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dc.contributor.authorStuck, Andreas Een_ZA
dc.contributor.authorTenthani, Lysonen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorEgger, Matthiasen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-11T06:57:25Z
dc.date.available2016-01-11T06:57:25Z
dc.date.issued2013en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationStuck, A. E., Tenthani, L., & Egger, M. (2013). Assessing population aging and disability in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Malawi?. <i>PLOS Medicince</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16318en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationStuck, Andreas E, Lyson Tenthani, and Matthias Egger "Assessing population aging and disability in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Malawi?." <i>PLOS Medicince</i> (2013) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16318en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationStuck, 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.1001441en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Stuck, Andreas E AU - Tenthani, Lyson AU - Egger, Matthias AB - 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. DA - 2013 DB - OpenUCT DO - 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001441 DP - University of Cape Town J1 - PLOS Medicince LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 T1 - Assessing population aging and disability in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Malawi? TI - Assessing population aging and disability in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Malawi? UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16318 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/16318
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001441
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationStuck AE, Tenthani L, Egger M. Assessing population aging and disability in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Malawi?. PLOS Medicince. 2013; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16318.en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Public Health and Family Medicineen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Health Sciencesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.rightsThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_ZA
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dc.sourcePLOS Medicinceen_ZA
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dc.subject.otherphysical limitationsen_ZA
dc.subject.otherdisabilityen_ZA
dc.subject.otherMalawien_ZA
dc.titleAssessing population aging and disability in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Malawi?en_ZA
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