Differential cancer morbidity towards year 2000 in a population disease outlook across Europe I. The female gender

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1 B, 1997, Pages 541-554

  Davidson, Kristina ^a   Lionis, Christos ^b   Faresjö, Tomas ^a   Koutis, Antonis ^b   Fioretos, Michael ^b   Foldevi, Mats ^a   Trell, Erik ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cancer; Crete; Gender; Greece; Health systems research; Hospital admissons; Hospital statistics; Morbidity; Population diseases; Rural population; Sweden; Urban population; Womens health

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER; GREECE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SWEDEN; URBAN POPULATION; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; EUROPE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASMS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0031057183     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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