Factors affecting death at home in Japan

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 87-98

  Sauvaget, Catherine ^a   Tsuji, Ichiko ^a   Li, Jing Hua ^a   Hosokawa, Toru ^b   Fukao, Akira ^c   Hisamichi, Shigeru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Death at home; Desire; Ecological study; Elderly; Japan

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0030252673     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.180.87     Document Type: Article

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