Health Expectancy Under Dynamic Set Up for India and its Selected States

The quality of life is usually measured in terms of Health expectancy. It is vital to know that weather an increased in a life expectancy lead to a similar increase in years spent in reasonable health. Further, increases in life expectancy due to the gradual decline in mortality lead to the concept of dynamic life table. In this context, this paper proposes a new method to measure the healthy life expectancy under dynamic approach and consequently access the pattern of changing mortality scenario, resulting in a longer life with good health. In other words, the dynamic healthy life expectancy is the aggregate average number of years that a person lives in a healthy state with continuous changing mortality scenario. The usefulness of the proposed indicator is demonstrated for India and some of its major states for the year 2011. The result showed that, for both sexes, the health life expectancies at birth were more under dynamic consideration as compared to usual consideration.