Measuring health inequalities between genders and age groups with realization of potential life years (RePLY)

• मुख्य लेखकों: Kam Ki Tang (लेखक), Dennis Petrie (लेखक), DS Prasada Rao (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: The World Health Organization, 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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OBJECTIVE We propose a new method to measure health inequalities caused by conditions amenable to policy intervention and use this to identify health differences between sexes and age groups. METHODS: The lowest observed mortality rates are used as a proxy of unavoidable mortality risks to develop a...