This handbook presents global research on health expectancies, a measure of population health that examines the interaction between quantity and quality of life

The International Network for Research in the Interpretation of Healthy life Expectancy Data held its first meeting in Quebec in September 1989. This book gathe

This handbook features in-depth reviews of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), quality of life and financial measures f

It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends i

Health expectancies were developed to address the important question of whether or not we are exchanging longer life for poorer health - replacing quality by qu