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Associations between diagnoses, impairments, disability and handicap in a population of elderly people

Author(s) -

Rowan Harwood,

Martin Prince,

Anthony Mann,

Shah Ebrahim

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/27.2.261

Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , confounding , disadvantage , medicine , gerontology , population , disease , social deprivation , rehabilitation , psychology , demography , environmental health , physical therapy , pathology , sociology , political science , law , economics , economic growth

'Handicap' is the disadvantage for an individual that results from ill-health. It represents an important outcome in chronic disabling disease, but has proved difficult to measure until recently. The strength of association between handicap and other health status measures, and the relative contributions of health and socioeconomic variables to handicap have not been studied previously.

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