Disability weights for comorbidity and their influence on Health-adjusted Life Expectancy

Disability weights for comorbidity and their influence on Health-adjusted Life Expectancy

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Comorbidity complicates estimations of health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) using disease prevalences and disability weights from Burden of Disease studies. Usually, the exact amount of comorbidity is unknown and no disability weig...

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Main Authors: de Wit G Ardine, Hoogenveen Rudolf T, Hoeymans Nancy, van Baal Pieter HM, Westert Gert P
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-04-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
Online Access:http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/4/1/1

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