Diferenciais socioeconômicos e demográficos na expectativa de vida saudável dos idosos para o Brasil e grandes regiões em 2013

Abstract

The Brazilian population has been undergoing a rapid change in its structure as a consequence of changes in its demographic dynamics. In this context, there is a reduction in the proportion of children and young people, a rapid aging process and increases in both life expectancy at birth and longevity of the population. With survival gains in almost all ages, especially from the age of 60, analyzing how the health conditions of this survivor population being further and further away is important in identifying an additional lifetime duration. However, since Brazil is a country of regional contrasts, it is important to analyze the impacts of population aging and longevity gains in relation to the different socioeconomic and demographic contexts in the major Brazilian regions. This study estimated and analyzed the indication of jointly incorporating changes in the level of mortality and health conditions of the elderly population, by socioeconomic and demographic characteristics among the Great Regions of Brazil in 2013. As information on the mortality from those extracted from the official tables of mortality rates published by IBGE. While the population's health condition was obtained based on the information on activities of daily living collected in the National Health Survey of 2013. Thus, the regional, socioeconomic and demographic differentials in the Life Expectancy of Disability of the elderly people living in Brazil in 2013. The main results show that as women lived longer than men, they are at a disadvantage in terms of DFLE. For Brazil, at age 60, a woman with a lifespan of 19.4 years and since I expect to live 4.0 years with functional disability, the values for the male population would be 17.3 and 2.6 years respectively . The subgroup of the less educated, living in the North and Northeast of Brazil, is the one that presents the biggest disadvantage in terms of DFLE, besides being below the national average. However, there are no more details about race and education are not statistically significant in most regions. Checking the differentials in the EVLI is important, since the results can serve as a subsidy for the evaluation and planning of public policies aimed at the care of the elderly, setting priorities for healthy habits and lifestyles, minimizing future demands in the health area, with a attention to those who are disadvantaged.