Compression or expansion of morbidity? Trends in healthy-life expectancy in the elderly Austrian population between 1978 and 1998

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 385-391

  Doblhammer, Gabriele ^a   Kytir, Josef ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b VIENNA INSTITUTE OF DEMOGRAPHY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Health expectancy; Health status; Morbidity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; HEALTH STATUS; LONGEVITY; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORBIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CENSUSES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORBIDITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 0035204285     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00141-6     Document Type: Article

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