Effects of education and other socioeconomic factors on middle age mortality in rural Bangladesh

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 315-320

  Hurt, L S ^a   Ronsmans, C ^a   Saha, S ^b  

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

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; RELIGION; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

BANGLADESH; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RURAL HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; MATLAB; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 1642443284     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2003.007351     Document Type: Article

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