Modelling the association of disability according to the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) with mortality in the British Women's Heart and Health Study.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on October 19, 2011

Authors

Caroline Dale1, David Prieto-Merino, Hannah Kuper, Joy Adamson, Ann Bowling, Shah Ebrahim, Juan P Casas

Author Affiliations

1: Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. caroline.dale@lshtm.ac.uk

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