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Traditionally used measures of mortality and health fall short of measuring a “life with dignity”. Comment.

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Mortality measurement was built to answer one question — how many died, at what age. It answers it well, and that answer transformed public health. Dignity, however, is a claim about the content and autonomy of a life, not its duration, and no death rate carries that information. The traditional battery is therefore necessary and…

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  • What the Traditional Measures Actually Count
  • Why They Fall Short of a “Life with Dignity”
  • The Correctives, and Their Own Limits
  • Health expectancies and the burden of disease
  • Capability, quality of life and the patient's voice
  • Are the Added Years Healthy Years?
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion
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