Double trouble: The impact of multimorbidity and deprivation on preference-weighted health related quality of life a cross sectional analysis of the Scottish Health Survey

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lawson, Kenny D ^a   Mercer, Stewart W ^a   Wyke, Sally ^a   Grieve, Eleanor ^a   Guthrie, Bruce ^b   Watt, Graham Cm ^a   Fenwick, Elisabeth Ae ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deprivation; Inequality; Multimorbidity; Preference Weighted Health Related Quality of Life (PW HRQoL)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VALUATION;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRONCHITIS; CATARACT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; EMPHYSEMA; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCONTINENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIGRAINE; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASM; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SHORT FORM 12; SOCIOECONOMICS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCOTLAND; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84883164560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-12-67     Document Type: Article

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