Our results indicate that the attribution of disability to chronic diseases is more informative if different levels of disability are taken into consideration. Measures of difficulty in ADL and mobility are generally used to evaluate health care treatment effectiveness. In contrast, dependence measures are used to identify demands for particular types of long-term care needs [1, 67]. In our study the hospitalization rate increased with disability severity level (Table 1), confirming previous findings [36]. Besides hospitalization, home care visits, nursing homes admission, and death also increase with disability severity level [36]. Therefore, the identification of which diseases are related to the different levels of disability severity can assist policymakers in the definition of strategies to tackle disability, involving prevention, rehabilitation programs (especially for dependence), support services, and training for disabled individuals