Preventing fatal diseases increases healthcare costs: Cause elimination life table approach

British Medical Journal

Volumn 316, Issue 7124, 1998, Pages 26-29

  Bonneux, Luc ^a   Barendregt, Jan J ^a   Nusselder, Wilma J ^a   Van Der Maas, Paul J ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Public Health ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COST CONTROL; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE TABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 0032477594     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.316.7124.26     Document Type: Article

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