Age patterns of mortality and cause-of-death structures in Sweden, Japan, and the United States

Demography

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 633-650

  Himes, Christine L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES; WHITES;

ADULT MORTALITY; AGE PATTERN; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY RISK; POPULATION CHANGE; RISK FACTOR;

JAPAN; SWEDEN; USA;

EID: 0028665950     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2061796     Document Type: Article

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