Measuring the health burden of chronic disease and injury using health adjusted life expectancy and the Health Utilities Index

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 843-850

  Manuel, D G ^a,b   Schultz, S E ^a   Kopec, J A ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; INDEX METHOD; INJURY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; DISABILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INJURY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

CANADA;

EID: 0036837795     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.56.11.843     Document Type: Article

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