Modelling the association of disability according to the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) with mortality in the British Women's Heart and Health Study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 170-175

  Dale, Caroline ^a   Prieto Merino, David ^a   Kuper, Hannah ^a   Adamson, Joy ^b   Bowling, Ann ^c   Ebrahim, Shah ^a,d   Casas, Juan P ^a,e  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; ELDERLY POPULATION; HEALTH RISK; LIFESTYLE; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WOMENS HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED KINGDOM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84855988227     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2011-200078     Document Type: Article

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