Camargos Mirela Castro Santos, Rodrigues Roberto do Nascimento, Machado Carla Jorge
Departamento de Demografia, Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG.
Cien Saude Colet. 2009 Sep-Oct;14(5):1903-9. doi: 10.1590/s1413-81232009000500032.
The increase of the percentage of elderly population in Brazil and the increase in longevity incite a demand for information on the quantity of years spent in good health. The aim of the present study is to measure the life expectancy for the elderly of 60 years and above, by sex and age, in the year of 2003. The Sullivan method was used, which combined the life-table with the current experience of mortality and the self-perceived health. The mortality information was obtained from the life tables published by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), 2003. The self-perceived health was used and it was dichotomized in good and bad. This information came from the National Research of Household Sample (PNAD), 2003. The results indicate that women live longer, but spend a higher number of years perceiving their health as bad, as compared to men. The results also highlights to the need of considering the differences between sexes in relation to the demand for health care. It is also important to consider the need to have policies designed to allow the increase in the number of years that the elderly can live in good health conditions.
巴西老年人口比例的增加以及预期寿命的延长引发了对健康生活年限信息的需求。本研究的目的是测算2003年60岁及以上老年人按性别和年龄划分的预期寿命。采用了沙利文方法，该方法将生命表与当前的死亡率经验及自我感知健康状况相结合。死亡率信息取自巴西地理与统计研究所（IBGE）2003年发布的生命表。使用了自我感知健康状况，并将其分为良好和不佳两类。该信息来自2003年全国住户抽样调查（PNAD）。结果表明，女性寿命更长，但与男性相比，她们自我感觉健康不佳的年限更多。结果还凸显了在医疗保健需求方面考虑性别差异的必要性。考虑制定政策以增加老年人健康生活的年限也很重要。
