Aging, Natural Death, and the Compression of Morbidity: Another View

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 309, Issue 14, 1983, Pages 854-856

  Schneider, Edward L ^a   Brody, Jacob A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FATALITY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MORBIDITY; NATURAL DEATH; NORMAL HUMAN; REVIEW; SURVEY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0020962005     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198310063091411     Document Type: Editorial

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