The burden of disease in older people and implications for health policy and practice

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9967, 2015, Pages 549-562

  Prince, Martin J ^a   Wu, Fan ^c   Guo, Yanfei ^c   Gutierrez Robledo, Luis M ^d   O'Donnell, Martin ^e   Sullivan, Richard ^b   Yusuf, Salim ^f  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Shanghai Railway Bureau Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BIGUANIDE; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INSULIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; STREPTOKINASE; SULFONYLUREA;

AGE; AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AGED; AGEISM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANGINA PECTORIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CATARACT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLON CANCER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; DISEASES; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE; GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH INCOME GROUP; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LENS IMPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; LOW BACK PAIN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG CANCER; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PARASITOSIS; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; REHABILITATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER; TRACHEA CANCER; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TUBERCULOSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; COST OF ILLNESS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84922932233     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61347-7     Document Type: Review

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