Resumen

RODRIGUEZ-ABREGO, Gabriela; ESCOBEDO DE LA PENA, Jorge; ZURITA G, Beatriz  y  RAMIREZ, Teresita de Jesús. Disability adjusted life expectancy in mexican population with social security. Perinatol. Reprod. Hum. [online]. 2006, vol.20, n.1-3, pp. 4-18. ISSN 0187-5337.

Objective: Estimate the disability adjusted life years for both sex and state and include the methodology that let it to build the indicator. Material and methods: We shown the build of life table elaborated for the Mexican population with Social Security in order to know the life expectancy (LE). We made the Chiang's Method with information about population and death certificate for the year 2000 after we modified the table of life Sullivan's method. Results: We calculate the life expectancy in social security population in 77.36 years and the life expectancy free of disability around 65.8 years and life expectative with disability in 10.5 years, this reference is a population ageing in transition process. Conclusion: With health profile that will give upper demands to health system. This is a tool that can help to build scene and to give facilities for the strategic administration.

Palabras llave : Life expectancy; disability adjusted life expectancy; modified life tables.