HEALTH RISK APPRAISAL IN THE UK - SOME PRELIMINARY-RESULTS

Authors
ROBINSON D ALLAWAY S
Citation
D. Robinson et S. Allaway, HEALTH RISK APPRAISAL IN THE UK - SOME PRELIMINARY-RESULTS, Methods of information in medicine, 37(2), 1998, pp. 143-146
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Medical Informatics","Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications
Journal title
Methods of information in medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00261270
Volume
37
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
143 - 146
Database
ISI
SICI code
0026-1270(1998)37:2<143:HRAITU>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
Information about a subject's lifestyle, personal past history and fam ily history of disease is obtained from a 70-item questionnaire. This information is then used to compute the subject's risk of dying from c ertain diseases, relative to the average risk for a person of the same age and sex.