Associations between multimorbidity, healthcare utilisation and health status: evidence from 16 European countries
Author(s) -
Raffaele Palladino,
John Tayu Lee,
Mark Ashworth,
Maria Triassi,
Christopher Millett
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afw044
Subject(s) - medicine , multimorbidity , logistic regression , depression (economics) , odds ratio , cross sectional study , health care , odds , demography , chronic disease , environmental health , gerontology , population , family medicine , pathology , sociology , economics , macroeconomics , economic growth
with ageing populations and increasing exposure to risk factors for chronic diseases, the prevalence of chronic disease multimorbidity is rising globally. There is little evidence on the determinants of multimorbidity and its impact on healthcare utilisation and health status in Europe.
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