Comparison of environmental quality in the districts of the Czech Republic with mortality pattern and selected health parameters

Central European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 300-306

  Svejdarova H ^a,b   Bencko, V ^b  

^a Czech Ecological Institute   (Czech Republic)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Geographic epidemiology; Mathematical modelling; Mortality pattern; Quality of countryside; Quality of the environment; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CZECH REPUBLIC; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INJURY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; NOISE POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; TUBERCULOSIS;

CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0031725884     PISSN: 12107778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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