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Longer Life, Healthier Life? [Infographic]

Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE), or healthy life expectancy, is a metric used by the World Health Organization to measure the number of years a person can expect to live in good health, taking social and economic factors into account alongside disease and disability rates.

When we deduct healthy life expectancy from actual life expectancy, we see the average amount of years someone can expect to live in bad health – or ‘Bad Health Years’.

This infographic takes a country-by-country look at the change in bad health years since 2000 to see where people are living a longer, healthier life.

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Causes of Death in 2030 [Infographic]

September 19September 25Posted in HealthTagged causes of death, coronary artery, diabetes, disease, Health, infographic, life expectancy, mortality, prediction, projections, prostate cancer, world health organizationLeave a comment

This infographic displays data from the World Health Organization’s “Projections of mortality and causes of death, 2015 and 2030”. The report details all deaths in 2015 by cause and makes predictions for 2030, giving an impression of how global health will develop over the next 14 years. Also featured is data from geoba.se showing how life expectancy will change between now and 2030.

All percentages shown have been calculated relative to projected changes in population growth.

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