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

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Date published: 
Monday, August 16, 2010
News source: 
CARDI
Region: 
Northern Ireland
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A recent CARDI report Illustrating Ageing in Ireland North and South and 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. 

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? 
  
The seminar will take place at 11am-1pm, 28th September 2010 at the Institute of Public Health in Ireland, Forestview, Belfast. It will cover the following subjects: 
 
  • 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. 
 
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)
 

 

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