Multimorbidity: The impact on health systems and their development

Health Reform: Meeting the Challenge of Ageing and Multiple Morbidities

Volumn 9789264122314, Issue , 2011, Pages 173-220

  Guthrie, Bruce ^a   Wyke, Sally ^b   Gunn, Jane ^c   Van Den Akker, Marjan ^d,e   Mercer, Stewart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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DOI: 10.1787/9789264122314-9-en     Document Type: Chapter

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