The future economic burden of dementia on the Danish health and social services;Demenssygdommes fremtidige økonomiske belastning af social- og sundhedsvæsenet

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 168, Issue 40, 2006, Pages 3432-3436

  Sørensen, Jan ^a   Gudex, Claire M ^a   Andersen, Christian Kronborg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; SOCIAL WORK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMENTIA; DENMARK; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, ECONOMIC;

EID: 33749578587     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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