Risk assessment of active smoking: Smoking-attributabte mortality and years of potential life lost in Taiwan, 1980 and 1992

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 1996, Pages 13-17

  Li, Chung Yi ^a,b   Lin Ruey Shiung, ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mortality; Prevalence; Program evalution; Smoking; Taiwan; YPLL

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; TAIWAN; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 0030308077     PISSN: 10105395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/101053959700900103     Document Type: Article

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