The joint distribution of years lived in good and poor health.

Background: Incidence-based multistate models of population health are commonly applied to calculate state expectancies, such as a healthy life expectancy (HLE), or unhealthy life expectancy (UHE). These models also allow the computation of other summary indices, such as the distributions of healthy or unhealthy lifespans.

Objective: We aim to show how a multistate health model implies a multistate death distribution, giving joint information on years lived in good and poor health.