TY - JOUR
T1 - A call for standardised age-disaggregated health data
AU - Diaz, Theresa
AU - Strong, Kathleen L.
AU - Cao, Bochen
AU - Guthold, Regina
AU - Moran, Allisyn C.
AU - Moller, Ann Beth
AU - Requejo, Jennifer
AU - Sadana, Ritu
AU - Thiyagarajan, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli
AU - Adebayo, Emmanuel
AU - Akwara, Elsie
AU - Amouzou, Agbessi
AU - Aponte Varon, John J.
AU - Azzopardi, Peter S.
AU - Boschi-Pinto, Cynthia
AU - Carvajal, Liliana
AU - Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman
AU - Crofts, Sarah
AU - Dastgiri, Saeed
AU - Dery, Jeremiah S.
AU - Elnakib, Shatha
AU - Fagan, Laura
AU - Jane Ferguson, B.
AU - Fitzner, Julia
AU - Friedman, Howard S.
AU - Hagell, Ann
AU - Jongstra, Eduard
AU - Kann, Laura
AU - Chatterji, Somnath
AU - English, Mike
AU - Glaziou, Philippe
AU - Hanson, Claudia
AU - Hosseinpoor, Ahmad R.
AU - Marsh, Andrew
AU - Morgan, Alison P.
AU - Munos, Melinda K.
AU - Noor, Abdisalan
AU - Pavlin, Boris I.
AU - Pereira, Rich
AU - Porth, Tyler A.
AU - Schellenberg, Joanna
AU - Siddique, Rizwana
AU - You, Danzhen
AU - Vaz, Lara M.E.
AU - Banerjee, Anshu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 World Health Organization; licensee Elsevier. This is an Open Access article published under the CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals agenda calls for health data to be disaggregated by age. However, age groupings used to record and report health data vary greatly, hindering the harmonisation, comparability, and usefulness of these data, within and across countries. This variability has become especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, when there was an urgent need for rapid cross-country analyses of epidemiological patterns by age to direct public health action, but such analyses were limited by the lack of standard age categories. In this Personal View, we propose a recommended set of age groupings to address this issue. These groupings are informed by age-specific patterns of morbidity, mortality, and health risks, and by opportunities for prevention and disease intervention. We recommend age groupings of 5 years for all health data, except for those younger than 5 years, during which time there are rapid biological and physiological changes that justify a finer disaggregation. Although the focus of this Personal View is on the standardisation of the analysis and display of age groups, we also outline the challenges faced in collecting data on exact age, especially for health facilities and surveillance data. The proposed age disaggregation should facilitate targeted, age-specific policies and actions for health care and disease management.
AB - The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals agenda calls for health data to be disaggregated by age. However, age groupings used to record and report health data vary greatly, hindering the harmonisation, comparability, and usefulness of these data, within and across countries. This variability has become especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, when there was an urgent need for rapid cross-country analyses of epidemiological patterns by age to direct public health action, but such analyses were limited by the lack of standard age categories. In this Personal View, we propose a recommended set of age groupings to address this issue. These groupings are informed by age-specific patterns of morbidity, mortality, and health risks, and by opportunities for prevention and disease intervention. We recommend age groupings of 5 years for all health data, except for those younger than 5 years, during which time there are rapid biological and physiological changes that justify a finer disaggregation. Although the focus of this Personal View is on the standardisation of the analysis and display of age groups, we also outline the challenges faced in collecting data on exact age, especially for health facilities and surveillance data. The proposed age disaggregation should facilitate targeted, age-specific policies and actions for health care and disease management.
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U2 - 10.1016/S2666-7568(21)00115-X
DO - 10.1016/S2666-7568(21)00115-X
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34240065
AN - SCOPUS:85111439460
SN - 2666-7568
VL - 2
SP - e436-e443
JO - The Lancet Healthy Longevity
JF - The Lancet Healthy Longevity
IS - 7
ER -