Titre :
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Potential gains in life expectancy or years of potential life lost : impact of competing risks of death. (1999)
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Auteurs :
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DEJIAN LAI . (.) ;
R.J. Hardy ;
School of Public Health. University of Texas. Houston. TX. USA
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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International journal of epidemiology (vol. 28, n° 5, 1999)
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Pagination :
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894-898
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Mortalité
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Epidémiologie
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Facteur risque
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Homme
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Etats Unis
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Amérique
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Amérique du Nord
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Espérance vie
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Année potentielle vie perdue
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST 0R0xeeQc. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background Measuring the impact of competing risks of death on society is important for setting public health policy and allocating resources. However, various indicators may result in inconsistent conclusions. The potential gains in life expectancy (PGLE) by elimination of deaths from HIV/AIDS, diseases of the heart and malignant neoplasms were compared to the years of potential life lost (YPLL) due to these causes in measuring the impact of premature death for the US population of working age (15-64 years). Methods The PGLE and the YPLL were computed from mortality reports (1987-1992) by race and gender group for deaths from HIV/AIDS, diseases of the heart and malignant neoplasms for the US population of working age. Results The YPLL overestimated the importance of premature deaths from HIV/AIDS compared to the PGLE. For the total US population and total US white population of working age, the YPLL were about 20-30% higher than the PGLE. However, the YPLL were about 20-30% lower than the PGLE for the US black population of working age. Furthermore the relative importance of the impact of death from various diseases may be interchanged by these two indicators. (...)
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