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Adjusting for dependent comorbidity in the calculation of healthy life expectancy

BACKGROUND: Healthy life expectancy – sometimes called health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) – is a form of health expectancy indicator that extends measures of life expectancy to account for the distribution of health states in the population. The World Health Organization has estimated healthy li...

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Autores principales: Mathers, Colin D, Iburg, Kim M, Begg, Stephen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1484491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16620383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-4-4