Healthy life expectancy: Comparison of OECD countries in 2001

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-11

  Mathers, Colin D ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^a   Salomon, Joshua A ^a   Sadana, Ritu ^a   Tandon, Ajay ^a   Lopez, Alan D ^a   Ustün, Bedirhan ^a   Chatterji, Somnath ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; REGIONALIZATION; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0037284724     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2003.tb00372.x     Document Type: Article

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