Mortality trends and setbacks: Global convergence or divergence?

Lancet

Volumn 363, Issue 9415, 2004, Pages 1155-1159

  McMichael, Anthony J ^a   McKee, Martin ^b   Shkolnikov, Vladimir ^c   Valkonen, Tapani ^d  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

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

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 1842528390     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15902-3     Document Type: Article

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