Mortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9061, 1997, Pages 1269-1276

  Murray, Christopher J L ^a,c   Lopez, Alan D ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CURVE FITTING; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CONTROL; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INDIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEASLES; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PATIENT CODING; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030983708     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)07493-4     Document Type: Article

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