Demographic and health patterns in a rural community from the Basque area in Spain (1800-1990)

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 541-558

  Alfonso Sánchez, Miguel A ^a   Mendieta, Victoria Panera ^b   Peña, José A ^a   Calderón, Rosario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SPAIN;

BIRTH RATE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MORTALITY; RURAL POPULATION; SPAIN;

EID: 0036788432     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932002005412     Document Type: Article

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