Welcome to a CEDAR seminar with professor Iñaki Permanyer Ugartemendia, Center for Demographic Studies, the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Iñaki Permanyer is an ICREA Research Professor at the Center for Demographic Studies (CED). He is the Head of the “Health and Demography” Unit at the Center for Demographic Studies and is the PI of an ERC Consolidator Grant project (2020-2025) titled: “Healthy lifespan inequality: Measurement, trends and determinants (HEALIN)”.
Iñaki Permanyer’s ongoing research reveals the extent to which healthy lifespans are unequally distributed across the population. While measures of average life expectancy – an estimate of how many years a person might be expected to live – is on the rise, this measure tells us very little about how long a person will live in good health. Accordingly, more knowledge is needed on the extent of inequality in the length of individuals’ lives.
Iñaki Permanyer investigates the trends and determinants of healthy lifespan inequality, and assesses whether the specific ages and causes that drive changes in healthy lifespan inequality are the same ones determining the changes in other indicators of population health such as life expectancy. He also investigates how healthy lifespan inequality looks like across and within countries and socio-economic groups. In addition, Iñaki Permanyer makes innovative contributions – of methodological and substantial nature - to the measurement of co-morbidity and to our understanding on how the latter can in turn influence the measurement of health expectancy and healthy lifespan inequality.
All interested are welcome to participate in this seminar! For zoom link contact Mojgan Padyab.
