The ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) is proud to offer this three day workshop for early career researchers hosted by the Centre for Research in Ageing, Health and Wellbeing at the Australian National University.
Healthy life expectancy is becoming an important tool to monitor population health. Whilst such indicators based on cross-sectional data and the Sullivan method have their place for monitoring trends and cross-national comparisons, healthy life expectancies from longitudinal data allow a much richer understanding of the transitions between the states of health, ill-health and death. In addition longitudinal methods for healthy life expectancy, unlike the Sullivan method, allow the inclusion of covariates, both to adjust for key confounders and to calculate healthy life expectancy for specific groups, for instance by level of education. Through lectures and practicals, this workshop will provide the fundamental tools to:
- understand the benefits of health expectancies from longitudinal data
- appreciate the different longitudinal study designs and their implications for calculating health expectancies from them
- understand how to calculate health expectancies from longitudinal data using two software packages, the interpretation of their output and their respective strengths and limitations
Although an example dataset will be provided for participants to work with, they are encouraged to bring their own data and research questions.
Workshop Presenters
Professor Carol Jagger (Newcastle University, UK)
Mr Andrew Kingston (Newcastle University, UK)
Enquiries
Phone: +61 2 9931 9202