Healthy life expectancy refers to the number of years that the human body can maintain good functions of daily life. The biggest difference from ordinary life expectancy is that ordinary life expectancy ends with death, while healthy life expectancy ends with loss of daily living ability.
The greater the proportion of healthy life expectancy to average life expectancy, the smaller the difference between healthy life expectancy and average life expectancy, and the higher the health level of residents.
Research groups such as the University of Washington in the United States published the results of the survey on "Healthy Life Expectancy" in 20 13 years in 88 countries around the world, among which Japan ranked first in the world. The healthy life expectancy of Japanese men is 71.1year, and that of women is 75.56 years, ranking first in the world. In 20 13 years, the average life expectancy of Japanese men exceeded 80 years and that of women exceeded 86 years for the first time. From 1990 to 20 13, the global average life expectancy has increased from over 65 to about 7 1.5 years, and the healthy life expectancy has also increased from 57 to over 62 years. The research team believes that this is mainly due to the progress made in dealing with infectious diseases such as HIV (AIDS) and malaria.
Wang Haidong, director of the Department of Aging Health of China National Health and Wellness Committee, said at the press conference of the National Health Committee that the health status of the elderly in China is not optimistic. In 20 18 years, the average life expectancy in China was 77.0 years, but the healthy average life expectancy was only 68.7 years, which suggested that each of us was 8.3 years old and alive with illness.
By the end of 20 18, China's elderly population aged 60 and above has reached 250 million. The proportion of elderly people suffering from one or more chronic diseases is as high as 75%, and there are more than 40 million disabled and partially disabled elderly people.
We expect not only to live long, but also to live well, live happily and have a high quality of life. Let's save health from youth and even from "dolls"!