Mortality in Kuwait: Pattern and seasonality

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 18-27

  Moussa, Mohamed A A ^a   El Sayed, Ali M ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Fourier analysis; Life tables; Mortality statistics; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 0031746129     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026018     Document Type: Article

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