Abstract #300388

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300388
Activity Number: 369
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Abstract - #300388
Title: Measuring the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Life Expectancy in the United States from 1987 to 1999
Author(s): Dejian Lai*+ and Robert J. Hardy
Companies: University of Texas, Houston and University of Texas
Address: Health Science Center, Houston, TX, 77030,
Keywords: diseases of heart ; malignant neoplasms ; HIV/AIDS ; life expectancy
Abstract:

Quantifying the impact of a disease on society is an important issue for setting priorities for a better allocation of health care resources and for evaluating the effectiveness of prevention and control of the disease. In our study, we computed and compared the potential gains in life expectancy due to HIV/AIDS, diseases of heart, and malignant neoplasms for the US population by age and ethnicity from 1987 to 1999. We used the official age-specific mortality rates of the US population by ethnicity from the National Center for Health Statistics and constructed multiple decremental life tables to find the corresponding potential gains in life expectancy.

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