Cohort Profile: The Sri Lanka Health and Ageing Study (SLHAS)

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Health Policy (IHP), Colombo, Sri Lanka.
² Department of Anatomy, Genetics and Biomedical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
³ Department of Pharmacy, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
⁴ Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Galle, Sri Lanka.
⁶ Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka.
⁷ Nutrition Department, Medical Research Institute (Ministry of Health), Colombo, Sri Lanka.
⁸ Faculty of Applied Sciences, Rajarata University, Mihintale, Sri Lanka.

Ravindra P Rannan-Eliya et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2024.

. 2024 Feb 14;53(2):dyae044.

doi: 10.1093/ije/dyae044.

¹ Institute for Health Policy (IHP), Colombo, Sri Lanka.
² Department of Anatomy, Genetics and Biomedical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
³ Department of Pharmacy, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
⁴ Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Galle, Sri Lanka.
⁶ Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka.
⁷ Nutrition Department, Medical Research Institute (Ministry of Health), Colombo, Sri Lanka.
⁸ Faculty of Applied Sciences, Rajarata University, Mihintale, Sri Lanka.

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Keywords: Sri Lanka; ageing; biobank; cohort; health care use; mental health; non-communicable disease; public opinion.

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