Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
ASSESSMENT OF HEALTHY LIFE YEARS FACTORS ACROSS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES BASED ON NEURAL NETWORKS ANALYSIS.
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2025
Языканглийский
  • Kirshin Igor Aleksandrovich, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Kirshin I. Assessment of healthy life years factors across European countries based on neural networks analysis. International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics. 2025. Vol.15. No.4. pp. 333-367. DOI:10.1504/IJCEE.2025.150005
    Annotation The objective of this paper is to identify, test and evaluate the influence of health and disability factors on the healthy life years. Panel data from the Eurostat European Health Survey and Health Statistics covering 31 European countries from 2011 to 2022 were used to examine how healthy life years are associated with health and disability factors. A cross-country multiple regression analysis with dummy variables for the COVID-19 period was performed using the multiple linear regression model and the multilayer perceptron neural network in two versions: regression and time series (regression). The results obtained convincingly confirm the proposed hypothesis: healthy life years were significantly associated with self-assessed disability level and self-assessed long-term limitations in usual activities due to health problems, and to a lesser extent with share of people with good or very good perceived health and people with long-term diseases or health problems. Global sensitivity analysis showed that all networks determine the level of disability variable to be the most important. To test the robustness of the model, the random forest model was applied. The identified factors can be used as significant predictors of healthy life years assessment for European countries population.
    Keywords healthy life years; time series analysis and forecasting; multiple linear regression analysis; neural networks; global sensitivity analysis; health inequalities; self-reported health
    The name of the journal International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics
    URL https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=150005
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