Urban-rural variations in health in the Netherlands: Does selective migration play a part?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 487-493

  Verheij, Robert A ^a   Van De Mheen, H Dike ^b   De Bakker, Dinny H ^a   Groenewegen, Peter P ^a   Mackenbach, Johan P ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MIGRATION; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0031708655     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.52.8.487     Document Type: Article

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