Morbidity Experiences and Disability Among Canadian Women

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 4, Issue Suppl 1, 2004, Pages

  DesMeules, Marie ^a   Turner, Linda ^b   Cho, Robert ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INFORMATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activity Limitation; Canadian Community Health Survey; Chronic Condition; Health Utility Index; Hospitalization Rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746373279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-4-S1-S10     Document Type: Article

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