Causes of death in the Eastern Mediterranean Region during the years 1998-2000

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 380-387

  Shawky, Sherine ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URANIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PARASITOSIS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; WAR; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 0038192440     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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