European stillbirth proportions before and after the Chernobyl accident

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 932-940

  Scherb, Hagen ^a   Weigelt, Eveline ^a   Brüske Hohlfeld, Irene ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chernobyl accident; Perinatal mortality; Regression analysis; Stillbirth; Time trend

Indexed keywords

CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; INFANT MORTALITY; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; REGIONAL PATTERN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BELGIUM; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DENMARK; FETUS; FRANCE; GERMANY; GREECE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; ICELAND; IRELAND; ITALY; LUXEMBOURG; NEWBORN; NORWAY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POLAND; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SPAIN; STILLBIRTH; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EUROPE;

EID: 0032695025     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/28.5.932     Document Type: Article

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