Compression or expansion of morbidity? Trends in healthy-life expectancy in the elderly Austrian population between 1978 and 1998.
The aim of our study is to test the theories of compression or expansion of morbidity on the basis of data on the elderly population of Austria. Our data come from four microcensus surveys for the years 1978, 1983, 1991, and 1998. We use self-perceived health ratings to calculate healthy-life expect...
| Publicado en: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 385 - 392 |
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Elsevier Science
February 2001
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