Non-communicable disease mortality rates using the verbal autopsy in a cohort of middle aged and older populations in Beirut during wartime, 1983-93

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 271-276

  Sibai, A M ^a   Fletcher, A ^b   Hills, M ^b   Campbell, O ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MORTALITY; URBAN SOCIETY; WAR;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAR;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WAR;

LEBANON;

EID: 0035100046     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.55.4.271     Document Type: Article

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