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Variations in disability and quality of life with age and sex between eight lower income and middle-income countries: data from the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

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  • Francesc Xavier Gomez-Olive MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Julia Schröders Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Isabella Aboderin African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK OPTENTIA Research Focus, North West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Peter Byass MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Somnath Chatterji Department of Health Statistics and Informatics, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Justine I Davies MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Institute for Global Health, King’s College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Cornelius Debpuur Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Siddhivinayak Hirve Department of Health Statistics and Informatics, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Vadu Rural Health Program, KEM Hospital Research Centre, Pune, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Abraham Hodgson Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sanjay Juvekar Vadu Rural Health Program, KEM Hospital Research Centre, Pune, India INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kathleen Kahn MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Paul Kowal Department of Health Statistics and Informatics, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rose Nathan Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nawi Ng Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Abdur Razzaque Matlab HDSS, Matlab, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Osman Sankoh INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Njala University, Njala, Sierra Leone School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Peter K Streatfield Matlab HDSS, Matlab, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Stephen M Tollman MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Siswanto A Wilopo HDSS Purworejo and Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Miles D Witham MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Ageing and Health, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Miles D Witham; m.witham{at}dundee.ac.uk
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Gomez-Olive FX, Schröders J, Aboderin I, et al
Variations in disability and quality of life with age and sex between eight lower income and middle-income countries: data from the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration
BMJ Global Health 2017;2:e000508.

Publication history

  • Received August 3, 2017
  • Revised November 2, 2017
  • Accepted November 10, 2017
  • First published December 20, 2017.
Online issue publication 
May 01, 2020

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