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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-1-26
pubmed:abstractText
The purpose of this study was to quantify and partition the expected years of life with and without handicap for the Chinese population according to various types of handicaps, age-sex groups and regions. A large-scale sample survey on handicapped persons conducted in 1987, and the 1990 population census constitute the basis for computing the expected years of life free of handicapped condition using the method proposed by Sullivan. The expected years of life with handicap for the Chinese population in childhood (0-14 y), working ages (15-64 y) and the elderly (65 y+) were 0.40, 1.78, and 3.44 for males and 0.34, 1.69, and 4.55 for females. For the Chinese males over 65 y of age, there were about 1.83 expected years of life with aural handicap and 0.59 expected years of life with ocular handicap. For the Chinese females over 65 y of age, there were about 1.87 expected years of life with aural handicap and 1.16 expected years of life with ocular handicap. The burden of living with handicap is greater for females and the elderly. This general pattern hold for all types of handicap except for skeletal handicap. The expected years of life with handicap for the Chinese population provide useful information for setting public health policies, despite the difficulty in making comparisons with the similar data in other countries.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0033-3506
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
114
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
330-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Age Distribution, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Case-Control Studies, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Child, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-China, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Disabled Persons, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Health Surveys, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Life Expectancy, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Life Tables, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Needs Assessment, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Population Surveillance, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Prevalence, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Public Health, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Residence Characteristics, pubmed-meshheading:11035451-Sex Distribution
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Effects of handicap on life expectancy: the case of China.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston, TX 77030, USA. dlai@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article