Taiwanese lose more years to illness: ministryPANDEMIC EFFECT: People with chronic conditions might have postponed treatment, an expert said, expecting the trend to continueBy Wu Liang-yi / Staff ReporterTaiwanese are spending more years of their life in poor health, Ministry of Health and Welfare data showed. The population’s average disability-adjusted life years was 8.41 years in 2019, nearly a month longer than in 2018, the data showed. Disability-adjusted life years measure the time a person spends in poor health, has a disability or dies before reaching a population’s average life expectancy. Chiu Hung-yi (邱弘毅), a public health professor at Taipei Medical University, said that the measure primarily expresses the social effects of chronic diseases. Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare Shih Chung-liang (石崇良) said that there are two ways to address the issue.

Source: Taipei Times August 08, 2021 16:00 UTC