Although populations around the world are rapidly ageing, evidence that increasing longevity
is being accompanied by an extended period of good health is scarce. A coherent and …

Purpose of the Study: Social and scientific discourses on healthy ageing and on health equity
are increasingly available, yet from a global perspective limited conceptual and analytical …

In 2016, more than 3000 new scientific articles were devoted to “healthy aging” and more
than 500 were focused on “successful aging.” Trying to digest this prolific literature highlights …

Background: Many international statements have urged researchers, policy-makers and
health care providers to collaborate in efforts to bridge the gaps between research, policy and …

Healthy aging is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “the process of developing
and maintaining the functional ability that enables wellbeing in older age”(1). The public …

We describe here the methods used to produce the first estimates of healthy life expectancy
(DALE) for 191 countries in 1999. These were based on estimates of the incidence, …

Health research generates knowledge that can be utilized to improve health system
performance and, ultimately, health and health equity. We propose a conceptual framework for …

A search (precision value 94%, recall value 93%) of the ISI Web of Science database (1992–2001)
revealed that mental health publications accounted for 3–4% of the health literature. …

Exploratory graph analysis (EGA) is a new technique that was recently proposed within the
framework of network psychometrics to estimate the number of factors underlying multivariate …

Countries need timely information on critical outcomes to evaluate their health policies,
manage their health systems and monitor progress. Routine health information systems are …