Years of life lost and other mortality indices
- 1 June 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Institute of Actuaries
- Vol. 115 (4) , 709-719
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s002026810004292x
Abstract
In 1953 together with a colleague (Benjamin and Logan) the author called attention to a paper by Haenzel (1950) describing a new index of mortality years of life lost.The argument was that many people were living for more than the three score and ten years and that every earlier death represented a loss of potential further years of life; that adding up the total years of life lost might be a significant measure of the toll of largely preventable disease; that changes in this total year by year would maximize the improvement gained by curative and especially preventative medicine.Keywords
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