Health expectancy calculations: A novel approach to studying population health in Bulgaria

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 147-153

  Mutafova, M ^a   Van De Water, H P A ^b   Perenboom, R J M ^b   Boshuizen, H C ^b   Maleshkov, C ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATIONAL AND WORLD ECONOMY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; DISABILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL CARE; POPULATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CARE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BULGARIA; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EASTERN EUROPE; EUROPE; HANDICAPPED; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS INDEXES; LENGTH OF LIFE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SEX FACTORS; STUDIES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BULGARIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

ELDERLY PEOPLE; HEALTH CONDITIONS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; SELF-ASSESSMENT;

BULGARIA;

EID: 0030617656     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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