Mortality rates of elderly Asian American populations based on medicare and social security data

Demography

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 529-540

  Lauderdale, Diane S ^a   Kestenbaum, Bert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; SOCIAL SECURITY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; DATABASES; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE PART B; MORTALITY; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036674489     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3088330     Document Type: Article

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