From healthy survivors to sick survivors — implications for the twenty-first century

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-155

  Rosen, Mans ^a   Haglund, Bengt ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Elderly; expansion of morbidity; long standing illness; need of care; survival

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHESIS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; TIME;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 17244364307     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14034940510032121     Document Type: Article

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