Disability weights for comorbidity and their influence on health-adjusted life expectancy

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  van Baal, Pieter H M ^a   Hoeymans, Nancy ^a   Hoogenveen, Rudolf T ^a   de Wit, G Ardine ^a   Westert, Gert P ^a  

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

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 33746626426     PISSN: 14787954     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-4-1     Document Type: Article

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