Avoidable mortality in Lithuania: 1991-1999 compared with 1970-1990

Public Health

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 201-210

  Logminiene, Zeneta ^a,c   Nolte, Ellen ^b   McKee, Martin ^b   Valius, Leonas ^a   Gaizauskiene, Aldona ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

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

^c NONE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Avoidable mortality; Lithuania; Medical care; Public health policy

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY;

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CALCULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LITHUANIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL CARE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEX RATIO; STANDARDIZATION; TUBERCULOSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1342330269     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2003.05.002     Document Type: Article

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