CHAPTER 1
Introduction 1

CHAPTER 2
Literature review of the methods and results of estimation of healthy life expectancy 7
1. Mathers et al. (2003) 9
2. Loukine et al. (2011) 10
3. Kaplan et al. (2007) 13
4. van Baal et al. (2006) 16
5. Manuel et al. (2004) 18

CHAPTER 3
Estimation of life expectancy and health life expectancy 21
1. Method and result of the analysis of healthy life expectancy 23
2. Method and result of HALE analysis 27
3. Health-related Quality of Life 28
4. Health-adjusted life expectancy 31

CHAPTER 4
Expected effects of obesity control on life expectancy and healthy life expectancy 37
1. Analysis method 43
2. Analysis variables 48

CHAPTER 5
Conclusion 67
1. Results of the estimation of life expectancy and healthy life
    expectancy 69
2. Changes in healthy life expectancy depending on variations in incidence rates 71

References 75