Adjusting for dependent comorbidity in the calculation of healthy life expectancy

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mathers, Colin D ^a   Iburg, Kim M ^a   Begg, Stephen ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN EUROPE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33745588326     PISSN: 14787954     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-4-4     Document Type: Article

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