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Health Expectancy

A package for calculating HALE (Health-adjusted Life expectancy or Healthy life expectancy) or DFLE (Disability-free life expectancy), a health expectancy indicator originally designed by Sanders (1964) and Sullivan (1971).

HALE

Calculated with mean Health Utilities Index, such as HRQOL (Health-related quality of life)

DFLE

Calculated with prevalence of long-term disability

How to install

install.packages('devtools') devtools::install_github('al00014/HealthExpectancy',auth_token='1a04ae09ee6c23af26162f643094392697b684b6')