O gap nos EEUU é em torno de 10 anos, aqui não deve ser muito diferente e esse é um dado assustador. What is healthspan vs lifespan and how to lengthen it | Fortune Well
Healthspan vs. lifespan Lifespan is the number of years someone lives from birth until death, while healthspan is the number of years someone is healthy without chronic and debilitating disease. The earliest mentions of healthspan describe it as, “the maintenance of full function as nearly as possible to the end of life.”
Often, people use these terms interchangeably, or solely use lifespan. If a community has a higher life expectancy, it makes sense that they would live longer, healthier lives, but that correlation is not always foolproof. The gap between health span and life span is roughly 10 years, Braunstein says.
“People tend to live the last 10 years of their life burdened with disease or poor quality of life,” he says. A 2021 perspective published in the Regenerative Medicine journal estimates the gap as roughly nine years.
According to recent research looking into life expectancy across the U.S., seven out of the 10 states ranking highest in life expectancy also ranked in the top 10 for states with the healthiest lifestyle. But D.C., for example, has the sixth healthiest lifestyle but the 23rd longest life expectancy.
