16th December 2014 - Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) section update

This is the annual update of the Scotland-level estimates of Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) on the ScotPHO website. The publication includes previously unpublished data on life expectancy (LE) and HLE for 2013 at Scotland level (including deprivation quintiles). Life expectancy (LE) is an estimate of how many years a person might be expected to live, whereas healthy life expectancy (HLE) is an estimate of how many years they might live in a 'healthy' state. HLE is a key summary measure of a population's health.

See the Publication Summary (93Kb) document published on the ISD Scotland website (a lead partner in the ScotPHO collaboration) for further details.