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Health expectancy
Definition
Health expectancy (at birth), or healthy life years (HLY), represents the number of years in good health that a person can expect to live (at birth). Good health is defined as not having any restrictions on (everyday) activity and not having any disabilities.
Health expectancy is an indicator of healthy life expectancy combining information on mortality and on morbidity. The information used to calculate it consists in calculations of the prevalence (proportion) of the population of a given age that is in good or poor health, and of mortality information per age. It is also referred to as disability-free life expectancy (DFLE).
