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Going beyond the disability-based morbidity definition in the compression of morbidity framework

BACKGROUND: As originally proposed by Fries, conceptualizing morbidity solely through associated functional limitation/disability (FL/D) remains the most widely accepted metric to assess whether increases in longevity have been accompanied by a compression of morbidity. OBJECTIVE: To propose a depar...

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Autores principales: Beltrán-Sánchez, Hiram, Razak, Fahad, Subramanian, S. V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25261699
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.24766