Global patterns of healthy life expectancy in the year 2002

BMC Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Mathers, Colin D ^a   Iburg, Kim Moesgaard ^b   Salomon, Joshua A ^c   Tandon, Ajay ^c   Chatterji, Somnath ^a   Ustün, Bedirhan ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE   (Denmark)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; LIFE TABLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 14544287349     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-4-66     Document Type: Article

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