Healthy Life Expectancy as Health Summary Measure of Russian Population

Abstract

This paper covers methodology of health expectancy indicators and introduces an attempt to analyze Russian population health using them. Health expectancy indicators combine mortality and self reported health data within a summary indicator measuring average health of total population and its subgroups.  Different approaches to measuring health using national representative surveys are elucidated and several applied for analyzing healthy life expectancy of Russian males and females using self reported data on health status from RLMS and GGS representative surveys.