Assessing the burden of disease and injury in Los Angeles County using Disability-Adjusted Life Years

Public Health Reports

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 185-191

  Kominski, Gerald F ^a,b   Simon, Paul A ^a,c   Ho, Alex ^c   Luck, Jeffrey ^a,b   Lim, Yee Wei ^a,b   Fielding, Jonathan E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CALCULATION; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; DRUG OVERDOSE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; INTOXICATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE TABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0036522031     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3549(04)50125-5     Document Type: Article

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