Measuring the prevalence of chronic diseases using population surveys by pooling self-reported symptoms, diagnosis and treatments: results from the World Health Survey of 2003 for South Asia

J.-F. Levesque (), S. Mukherjee, D. Grimard, A. Boivin and Srijit Mishra ()

International Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 58, issue 3, 435-447

Abstract: Our expanded measure of chronic disease could form a basis for surveillance of chronic diseases in countries where health information systems have been poorly developed. It represents an interesting trade-off between the bias associated with usual surveillance data and costs. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health 2013

Keywords: Chronic disease; Self-reported health; Population surveys; Disease prevalence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-013-0446-5

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