Exposure, resistance and life expectancy: Disease and death during the economic development of Japan, 1900-1960

Population Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 207-235

  Ryan Johansson, S ^a   Mosk, Carl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; JAPAN;

DEMOGRAPHY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, MODERN; JAPAN; STATISTICS;

EID: 0023522941     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0032472031000142776     Document Type: Article

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