Reversal in mortality trends: Evidence from the Agincourt field site, South Africa, 1992-1995

AIDS

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1091-1097

  Tollman, Stephen M ^a,c   Kahn, Kathleen ^a   Garenne, Michel ^b   Gear, John S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Université Paris Descartes   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

AIDS; Demographic surveillance; Health reform; Mortality; Reversal; Trends

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS; VIOLENCE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENSUSES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032802804     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199906180-00013     Document Type: Article

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