Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: The INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

Global Health Action

Volumn 3, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 11-22

  Kowal, Paul ^a,b   Kahn, Kathleen ^c,d,e   Ng, Nawi ^d,e,f   Naidoo, Nirmala ^a   Abdullah, Salim ^e,g   Bawah, Ayaga ^e   Binka, Fred ^e   Chuc, Nguyen T K ^e,h   Debpuur, Cornelius ^e,i   Ezeh, Alex ^e,j   Xavier Gomez Olive F ^c,e   Hakimi, Mohammad ^e,f   Hirve, Siddhivinayak ^e,k   Hodgson, Abraham ^e,i   Juvekar, Sanjay ^e,k   Kyobutungi, Catherine ^e,j   Menken, Jane ^l,m   van Minh, Hoang ^e,h   Mwanyangala, Mathew A ^e,g   Razzaque, Abdur ^e,m   Sankoh, Osman ^e   Kim Streatfield, P ^e,m   Wall, Stig ^d   Wilopo, Siswanto ^e,f   Byass, Peter ^d   Chatterji, Somnath ^a   Tollman, Stephen M ^c,d,e   more..

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^f GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^g IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^h HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

ⁱ Navrongo HDSS   (Ghana)

^j AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^k KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^m INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

more..

Author keywords

Ageing; Burden of disease; Demographic transition; Disability; Health status; INDEPTH WHO SAGE; Public health; Survey methods; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900253797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v3i0.5302     Document Type: Article

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