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Urban-rural differences in disability-free life expectancy in Bangladesh using the 2010 HIES data
BACKGROUND: Research on health expectancy has been carried out in Bangladesh but none of it has examined the differences in Disability-Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) between urban and rural setting in context of rapid urbanization of Bangladesh in past decades. OBJECTIVES: The present study aims to est...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524410/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28742101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179987 |
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author | Islam, Md. Shariful Tareque, Md. Ismail Mondal, Md. Nazrul Islam Fazle Rabbi, Ahbab Mohammad Khan, Hafiz T. A. Begum, Sharifa |
author_facet | Islam, Md. Shariful Tareque, Md. Ismail Mondal, Md. Nazrul Islam Fazle Rabbi, Ahbab Mohammad Khan, Hafiz T. A. Begum, Sharifa |
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description | BACKGROUND: Research on health expectancy has been carried out in Bangladesh but none of it has examined the differences in Disability-Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) between urban and rural setting in context of rapid urbanization of Bangladesh in past decades. OBJECTIVES: The present study aims to estimate DFLE for people of all ages living in urban and rural areas in Bangladesh, and to examine the differences in DFLE between these two areas. METHODS: Data from the Sample Vital Registration System 2010 and the Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2010 were used in this study. The Sullivan method was applied to estimate DFLE in Bangladesh. RESULTS: Higher rates of mortality and disability were observed in rural areas compared to urban areas with few exceptions. Statistically significant differences in DFLE were revealed from birth to age 15 years for both sexes between urban and rural areas. Urban males had a longer life expectancy (LE), longer DFLE and shorter LE with disability both in number and proportion when compared to rural males. Rural females at age 20+ years had a longer LE than urban females but urban females had a longer DFLE and a shorter LE with disability in both number and proportion at all ages than did rural females. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates that there were clear inequalities in LE, DFLE and LE with disability between rural and urban areas of Bangladesh along with age-specific differences as well. These findings may serve as useful and benchmark for intervention and policy implications for reducing the gap in health outcomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-55244102017-08-07 Urban-rural differences in disability-free life expectancy in Bangladesh using the 2010 HIES data Islam, Md. Shariful Tareque, Md. Ismail Mondal, Md. Nazrul Islam Fazle Rabbi, Ahbab Mohammad Khan, Hafiz T. A. Begum, Sharifa PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Research on health expectancy has been carried out in Bangladesh but none of it has examined the differences in Disability-Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) between urban and rural setting in context of rapid urbanization of Bangladesh in past decades. OBJECTIVES: The present study aims to estimate DFLE for people of all ages living in urban and rural areas in Bangladesh, and to examine the differences in DFLE between these two areas. METHODS: Data from the Sample Vital Registration System 2010 and the Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2010 were used in this study. The Sullivan method was applied to estimate DFLE in Bangladesh. RESULTS: Higher rates of mortality and disability were observed in rural areas compared to urban areas with few exceptions. Statistically significant differences in DFLE were revealed from birth to age 15 years for both sexes between urban and rural areas. Urban males had a longer life expectancy (LE), longer DFLE and shorter LE with disability both in number and proportion when compared to rural males. Rural females at age 20+ years had a longer LE than urban females but urban females had a longer DFLE and a shorter LE with disability in both number and proportion at all ages than did rural females. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates that there were clear inequalities in LE, DFLE and LE with disability between rural and urban areas of Bangladesh along with age-specific differences as well. These findings may serve as useful and benchmark for intervention and policy implications for reducing the gap in health outcomes. Public Library of Science 2017-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5524410/ /pubmed/28742101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179987 Text en © 2017 Islam et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Islam, Md. Shariful Tareque, Md. Ismail Mondal, Md. Nazrul Islam Fazle Rabbi, Ahbab Mohammad Khan, Hafiz T. A. Begum, Sharifa Urban-rural differences in disability-free life expectancy in Bangladesh using the 2010 HIES data |
title | Urban-rural differences in disability-free life expectancy in Bangladesh using the 2010 HIES data |
title_full | Urban-rural differences in disability-free life expectancy in Bangladesh using the 2010 HIES data |
title_fullStr | Urban-rural differences in disability-free life expectancy in Bangladesh using the 2010 HIES data |
title_full_unstemmed | Urban-rural differences in disability-free life expectancy in Bangladesh using the 2010 HIES data |
title_short | Urban-rural differences in disability-free life expectancy in Bangladesh using the 2010 HIES data |
title_sort | urban-rural differences in disability-free life expectancy in bangladesh using the 2010 hies data |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524410/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28742101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179987 |
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