Multimorbid life expectancy across race, socioeconomic status, and gender in South Africa

Abstract

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Inequalities in disability-free and disabling multimorbid life expectancy in Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States

“…One approach to understanding multimorbidity burden is to compare the time spent living with multimorbidity, or multimorbid life expectancy (MMLE) (Lam et al, 2022) and how it varies by context and social groups. As opposed to prevalence, which provides a general estimate of disease burden in a population at a certain time, MMLE accounts for the nuances of multimorbidity progression within a demographic framework.…”