Trends in healthy life expectancy in Hong Kong SAR 1996–2008
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Trends in healthy life expectancy in Hong Kong SAR 1996–2008
Although Hong Kong has one of the best life expectancy (LE) records in the world, second only to Japan for women, we know very little about the changes in the health status of the older adult population. Our article aims to provide a better understanding of trends in both chronic morbidity and disability for older men and women. The authors compute chronic morbidity-free and disability-free lif...
متن کاملTitle Trends in healthy life expectancy in Hong Kong SAR 1996 - 2008
Although Hong Kong has one of the best life expectancy (LE) records in the world, second only to Japan for women, we know very little about the changes in the health status of the older adult population. Our article aims to provide a better understanding of trends in both chronic morbidity and disability for older men and women. The authors compute chronic morbidity-free and disability-free lif...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Ageing
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1613-9372,1613-9380
DOI: 10.1007/s10433-010-0171-3