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Title: | Urban-rural differences in disability-free life expectancy in Bangladesh using the 2010 HIES data | Authors: | Islam Md.S. Tareque Md.I. Mondal Md.N.I. Fazle Rabbi A.M. Khan H.T.A. Begum S. |
Keywords: | adolescent age distribution Bangladesh controlled study disability disability free life expectancy female health care cost health care policy household income human hypertension income life expectancy life table male morbidity mortality rate politics prevalence quality adjusted life year socioeconomics urban rural difference urbanization adult aged child disabled person epidemiology infant middle aged mortality newborn preschool child rural health statistics and numerical data urban health very elderly young adult Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Bangladesh Child Child, Preschool Disabled Persons Female Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Life Expectancy Male Middle Aged Mortality Prevalence Rural Health Urban Health Urbanization Young Adult |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Publisher: | Public Library of Science | Citation: | Islam Md.S., Tareque Md.I., Mondal Md.N.I., Fazle Rabbi A.M., Khan H.T.A., Begum S. (2017). Urban-rural differences in disability-free life expectancy in Bangladesh using the 2010 HIES data. PLoS ONE 12 (7) : e0179987. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179987 | Abstract: | 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. MethodsK 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. © 2017 Islam et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | Source Title: | PLoS ONE | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/165784 | ISSN: | 1932-6203 | DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0179987 |
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