Violent mortality patterns in immigrants in Israel (1990-95)

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 173-181

  Karasik, David ^a   Yakovenko, Konstantin ^a   Lipstein, Eliezer ^b   Hiss, Jehuda ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b L Greenberg Inst of Forensic Med   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; USSR; VIOLENCE;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SUICIDE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0033111512     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580249903900213     Document Type: Article

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