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Increasing life expectancy on the island: healthy years or just extra years?

Date: 11am-1pm  28 September 2010
 
Location: Institute of Public Health in Ireland, Forestview, Belfast
 
Ireland and Northern Ireland’s Population Health Observatory (INIsPHO) in the Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH), in association with the Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI), will host the September meeting of the Health Analysts’ Special Interest Group (HASIG). The theme of the meeting will be Increasing life expectancy on the island: healthy years or just extra years?
 
A recent CARDI report Illustrating Ageing in Ireland North and South noted that since the 1920s the number of years males can expect to live rose by about 20 years while the number of years females can expect to live rose by about 24-25 years.  It is not clear, however, that these years of life gained are lived in good health.
  
This seminar will:
 
  • Discuss the policy implications and the compression of morbidity debate
  • Introduce the range of health expectancy measures and compare them to life expectancy
  • Present initial findings from the all-island study of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
 
Attendees will have the opportunity to comment on findings from the initial analysis and provide input into the later stage of the analysis.
 
Attendance is free and all are welcome. The seminar will also be available as a live webcast.
 
Programme
 
11am                Registration with tea and coffee
 
11.15am            Welcome and introduction
              Lorraine Fahy, IPH
 
11.20am            Policy context and the compression of morbidity debate
                        Conor Breen, CARDI
 
11.40am            Introduction to life expectancy and health expectancy measures
                        Safa Abdalla, IPH/UCC 
 
12.00pm           Initial findings of an all-island study:
                        Republic of Ireland analysis – Safa Abdalla, IPH/UCC
                        Northern Ireland analysis – Lorraine Fahy, IPH
 
12.40pm           Discussion
 
1pm                  End
 
Afterwards, please join us for a light lunch.
 
 
 
RSVP to Suzanne Kirk (email suzanne.kirk@publichealth.ie or phone: +353 (0)1 478 6300) or Leah Friend (email: leah.friend@publichealth.ie or phone +44 (0)28 90 648494)
 
Further information can be found on our websites:
 www.publichealth.ie and www.inispho.org

 

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