Why and how?

In these pages you can find the definition and policy relevance of the health expectancies indicators.

• What does health expectancy measure: this indicators extend the simple measure of years of life, proposed by regular life expectancy, to the health dimension in order to appraise both the quantity and the quality of the years to be lived

• How to use and comment levels trends and disparities in health expectancy relate to the underlying health dimension integrated in the indicator. You can find in this page a document to be downloaded providing simple examples of interpretation