Using different indicators of preventable mortality as an approach to measuring health inequalities in chilean municipalities;Variación de los indicadores de mortalidad evitable entre comunas chilenas como aproximación a las desigualdades de salud

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 454-461

  Gattini, Cesar ^a   Sanderson, Colin ^b   Castillo Salgado, Carlos ^a  

^a PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH STATUS; MONITORING SYSTEM; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN POPULATION;

ARTICLE; CHILE; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CHILE;

EID: 0036975808     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1020-49892002001200011     Document Type: Article

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