Economic growth or survival? The problematic case of child mortality in Turkey

European Journal of Population

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 241-278

  Behar, Cem ^a   Courbage, Youssef ^a   Gürsoy, Akile ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES DÉMOGRAPHIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY;

TURKEY;

EID: 0032756003     PISSN: 01686577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006273128242     Document Type: Article

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