Physical functioning in elderly Europeans: 10 Year changes in the north and south: The HALE project

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 413-419

  Äijänseppä, Sinikka ^a   Notkola, Irma Leena ^a   Tijhuis, Marja ^b   Van Staveren, Wija ^c   Kromhout, Daan ^b   Nissinen, Aulikki ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABLED PERSONS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 17644423531     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2004.026302     Document Type: Article

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