Open AccessGains in Life Expectancy by Elimination of Specified Causes of Death in Pakistan
Author(s) -
Syed Mubashir Ali,
Zafar Mueen Nasir
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v27i4iipp.646-653
Subject(s) - life expectancy , environmental health , sewerage , public health , developing country , child mortality , infant mortality , malaria , tuberculosis , medicine , demography , years of potential life lost , mortality rate , pediatrics , population , immunology , economic growth , surgery , economics , nursing , pathology , sociology , engineering , waste management
Death is inevitable. However, efforts have always been made todelay it. Due to the advancement in medical science, the developedcountries have succeeded in achieving a considerable increase in thelife expectancy of the people. On the other hand, the developingcountries are striving hard to follow the same trend. but with lessersuccess. Constrained by limited resources, health planners have beencompelled to set priorities towards the elimination of widespread fataldiseases. The cause specific death rates can provide a measure of themost widely prevalent diseases in the region. An age and cause specificdeath rate, would give a more refined measure of the same. However, inorder to measure the gain in life expectancy by elimination of specificcauses of death, the use of the life table technique would be anappropriate one. For example, if 'Malaria' is the largest killer in aregion. the application of this technique could provide us with addedyears of life resulting from the elimination of Malaria. The presentstudy is an attempt to examine the gains in life expectancy at birth aswell as for other broad age groups by eliminating specified causes ofdeath.