Cent Eur J Public Health 2017, 25(Suppl 2):S10-S15 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a4955

Disparities of potential gains in life expectancy development between the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic

Tatiana Vagašová, Beáta Gavurová
Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic

Aim: The purpose of this paper is to determine how many years a person could be expected to live if a specific cause of death was eliminated, and to compare potential gains in life expectancy (PGLEs) between Slovakia (SVK) and the Czech Republic (CZE).

Methods: PGLEs were computed from mortality reports (1996-2013) for deaths from the main groups of chronic diseases, namely ischaemic heart disease (IHD), cerebrovascular diseases (CVD), cancer (CA), diabetes mellitus (DM), and chronic respiratory diseases (CRD) for the Slovak and Czech populations in five-year age groups. Country comparative analysis was conducted by constructing rate ratios of PGLEs.

Results: In 2013, life expectancy at birth for the Slovak and Czech populations was 76.5 and 78.3 years. Overall trends of standardised mortality rates of chronic diseases roughly paralleled the PGLEs trend. During 1996-2013, SVK reported the highest PGLEs of IHD at an average of 4.54 years, compared to PGLEs of CA reaching a value of 3.61 years in CZE. The PGLEs of IHD showed the largest gap between SVK and CZE, with an average of 1.65 higher values in SVK. With the elimination of CVD as the third most influential disease in both countries, PGLEs decreased from 1.65 to 0.93 years in CZE; a negligible drop from 1.13 to 1.05 was recorded in SVK. The lowest impacts on life expectancy were recorded in DM and CRD. However, since 2005 these trends have deteriorated in CZE. In 2013, IHD had a similar impact on life expectancy in all age groups in SVK and a decreasing impact among 50-54 year olds in CZE. Similarly to SVK, people in CZE aged 45-49 could gain 0.94 years in LE after CVD elimination, which is nearly the same as at birth.

Conclusions: The higher the life expectancy after elimination of the cause of death is, the higher the impact of the disease on life expectancy. Health prevention programs should be mainly aimed at CA mortality in CZE, while the highest burden of IHD is seen in SVK.

Keywords: life expectancy, potential gains in life expectancy, standardised mortality rate, non-communicable diseases, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic

Received: October 17, 2016; Revised: December 19, 2017; Published: December 30, 2017  Show citation

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Vagašová T, Gavurová B. Disparities of potential gains in life expectancy development between the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2017;25(Supplement 2):S10-15. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a4955. PubMed PMID: 29524364.
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