Recent increases in mortality have brought life expectancy back to the forefront of the public health debate in the US … average health performance of OECD countries at their typical health expenditures. …

We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …