Post-1950 mortality trends and medical care: Gains in life expectancy due to declines in mortality from conditions amenable to medical intervention in the Netherlands

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 1988, Pages 889-894

  Mackenbach, Johan P ^a   Looman, Caspar W N ^a   Kunst, Anton E ^a   Habbema, J Dik F ^a   van der Maas, Paul J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

loglinear regression analysis; medical care; mortality; Netherlands

Indexed keywords

AGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

LOGLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL CARE; MORTALITY;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0023818087     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(88)90278-X     Document Type: Article

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