Epidemiological research on dementia in developing countries;Investigações epidemiológicas sobre demência nos países em desenvolvimento

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 773-778

  Scazufca, Marcia ^a   Cerqueira, A T A R ^b   Menezes, P R ^a   Prince, M ^c   Vallada, H P ^a   Miyazaki, M C O S ^d   Domingos, N A M ^d   Antunes, E H ^a   Macedo, G C ^a   Almeida, S A ^d   Matsuda, C M C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Faculdade de Medicina   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aged; Dementia, epidemiology; Developing countries; Epidemiologic methods; Health surveys

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMENTIA; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 12244256117     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-89102002000700018     Document Type: Article

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