Healthy life expectancy and the correlates of self-rated health in an ageing population in Rajshahi district of Bangladesh

Ageing and Society

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1075-1094

  Tareque, Md Ismail ^a   Islam, Towfiqua Mahfuza ^b   Kawahara, Kazuo ^b   Sugawa, Makiko ^b   Saito, Yasuhiko ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; healthy life expectancy; older people; self rated health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988288884     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X14000130     Document Type: Article

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