Mortality trends of elderly people in Taiwan from 1974 to 1994

Age and Ageing

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 199-203

  Leung, Kai Kuen ^a   Tang, Li Yu ^b   Chie, Wei Chu ^b   Lue, Bee Horng ^a   Lee, Long Teng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cancer; Cause mortality; Elderly; Frailty; Life expectancy; Mortality trends; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHESIS; INJURY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEPTICEMIA; STROKE; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032924679     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/28.2.199     Document Type: Article

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