Session 175:
Measurement Issues in Research on Healthy Life Expectancy
Chair: Christine Himes, Syracuse University
Discussant: Liming Cai, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC
A New Typology of Functionality and Health of the Elderly in Mexico • Roberto Ham-Chande, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte ; Cesar A. González, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
On the Rising Tendency of Disability Risk in the Process of Mortality Decline • Nan Li, Duke University
Status-Based Estimates of Active Life Expectancy by Type of Initial Limitation • Scott M. Lynch, Princeton University ; J. Scott Brown, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A Microsimulation Model to Estimate Errors in Cross-Sectional Estimates of Disability-Adjusted Life Expectancy • Alberto Palloni, University of Wisconsin at Madison ; Mercedes Ayuso, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Montserrat Guillén, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Malena Monteverde, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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