Poverty and mortality among the elderly: Measurement of performance in 33 countries 1960-92

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1001-1010

  Wang, Jia ^a,b   Jamison, Dean T ^a,b   Bos, Eduard ^a   Vu, My Thi ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

developing countries; education; elderly; income; industrialized countries; life expectancy; mortality

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; ELDERLY PEOPLE; INCOME ROLE; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY RATE; POVERTY; POVERTY INCIDENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INCOME; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POVERTY;

EID: 0030768609     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1997.d01-161.x     Document Type: Article

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