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Citation

Geyer S. Int. J. Public Health 2016; 61(7): 727-728.

Affiliation

Medical Sociology Unit, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 3, 30625, Hannover, Germany. geyer.siegfried@mh-hannover.de.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00038-016-0853-5

PMID

27444195

Abstract

This comment refers to the article available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-016-0829-5.

In the 1980s, Fries formulated the morbidity compression hypothesis (Beltran-Sanchez et al. 2014). It states that due to improved prevention and better living conditions, the time spent in a state of disease and disability will be compressed towards the end of life. As a consequence, healthy life years will be gained. In the recent years it has received increasing attention within the context of demographic aging....


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