Improving Healthy Life Expectancy in East Sussex
The Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) priority to “protect and level up the nation’s health through reducing health disparities” has identified Healthy life expectancy (HLE) as a key outcome measure nationally in assessing the extent to which health is improving and disparities are narrowing.
This briefing outlines what we mean by healthy life expectancy and why it is important; what HLE looks like and what drives HLE nationally and locally; self-reported health status in East Sussex and what impacts on our self-reporting of our general health; best practice to address the HLE gap, and what we are doing about it in East Sussex.
This report focuses specifically on healthy life expectancy: how long someone is expected to life in good health.