PRODUCTIVE YEARS OF LIFE LOST BY PRE-RETIREMENT DEATHS IN KOREA

한국인의 정년퇴임전 사망에 의한 productive life의 손실

The current use of leading causes of death is an outmoded, misleading counterproductive measure of importance of disease. The 'new' concept of productive years of life discounted to the future and combined with morbidity, disability, and direct cost measures will give a much more meaningful, useful measure of the magnitude of disease problems in Korea. I am looking forward to seeing refinements and improvements on this technique carried out by some readers of this paper.