Trends in injury mortality among adolescents in Taiwan, 1965-94

Injury Prevention

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-115

  Lu, Tsung Hsueh ^a   Lee, Meng Chih ^a   Chou, Ming Chih ^a  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Mortality trends; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; TAIWAN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0032105253     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.4.2.111     Document Type: Article

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