Health expectancy in Greenland

Background: Mortality and disease patterns in Greenland have greatly changed since the 1950s. Infectious diseases have decreased markedly; chronic diseases, suicides and violent deaths have increased. Methods: Life tables for the period 1991-95 were used and health status was derived from the 1993/9...

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Published in:Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
Main Authors: Iburg, Kim Moesgaard, Brønnum-Hansen, Henrik, Bjerregaard, Peter
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2001
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spelling crsagepubl:10.1177/14034948010290010501 2024-05-12T08:04:10+00:00 Health expectancy in Greenland Iburg, Kim Moesgaard Brønnum-Hansen, Henrik Bjerregaard, Peter 2001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14034948010290010501 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14034948010290010501 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Scandinavian Journal of Public Health volume 29, issue 1, page 5-12 ISSN 1403-4948 1651-1905 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine journal-article 2001 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948010290010501 2024-04-18T08:32:21Z Background: Mortality and disease patterns in Greenland have greatly changed since the 1950s. Infectious diseases have decreased markedly; chronic diseases, suicides and violent deaths have increased. Methods: Life tables for the period 1991-95 were used and health status was derived from the 1993/94 Greenland Health Interview Survey. Health expectancy for the Inuit population of Greenland was calculated by an index suggested by Sullivan. Results: Greenland Inuit women live longer than men, but the expected lifetime in self-rated good health was shorter for women than for men. Chronic disease rates are high in Greenland, and consequently many healthy life years are lost, especially because of musculoskeletal diseases. Health expectancy decreases with age, but for this Inuit population the proportion of healthy life years increases after the age of 60, especially among men. Conclusion: The many healthy life years lost in Greenland according to self-rated poor health and chronic diseases should be a cause for concern in public health planning in Greenland. Special attention should also be paid to future investigations of regional patterns of health in Greenland, since there is great population heterogeneity according to geography and urbanization . Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland inuit SAGE Publications Greenland Sullivan ENVELOPE(-63.817,-63.817,-69.650,-69.650) Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 29 1 5 12
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Iburg, Kim Moesgaard
Brønnum-Hansen, Henrik
Bjerregaard, Peter
Health expectancy in Greenland
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description Background: Mortality and disease patterns in Greenland have greatly changed since the 1950s. Infectious diseases have decreased markedly; chronic diseases, suicides and violent deaths have increased. Methods: Life tables for the period 1991-95 were used and health status was derived from the 1993/94 Greenland Health Interview Survey. Health expectancy for the Inuit population of Greenland was calculated by an index suggested by Sullivan. Results: Greenland Inuit women live longer than men, but the expected lifetime in self-rated good health was shorter for women than for men. Chronic disease rates are high in Greenland, and consequently many healthy life years are lost, especially because of musculoskeletal diseases. Health expectancy decreases with age, but for this Inuit population the proportion of healthy life years increases after the age of 60, especially among men. Conclusion: The many healthy life years lost in Greenland according to self-rated poor health and chronic diseases should be a cause for concern in public health planning in Greenland. Special attention should also be paid to future investigations of regional patterns of health in Greenland, since there is great population heterogeneity according to geography and urbanization .
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