Trends over 4 decades in disability-free life expectancy in the United States

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1287-1293

  Crimmins, Eileen M ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^a   Saito, Yasuhiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84974531628     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303120     Document Type: Article

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