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. 2010 Nov 4;7(4):219–227. doi: 10.1007/s10433-010-0169-x

Table 2.

Decomposition of the gender gap in Healthy Life Years (HLY), Unhealthy Life Years (ULY) and total life expectancy (LE) by effect, at age 15 for men and women

Age 15 EU15 EU10
HLY ULY LE HLY ULY LE
Men 48.4 14.6 62.9 42.7 13.6 56.3
Women 48.4 20.1 68.5 45.8 18.9 64.7
Difference
 Women–Men 0.02 5.5 5.5 3.1 5.3 8.4
Decomposition of difference
 Mortality effect 2.6 2.9 5.5 3.9 4.5 8.4
 Disability effect −2.6 2.6 0.0 −0.8 0.8 0.0
 Total 0.02 5.5 5.5 3.1 5.3 8.4