Municipal health expectancy in Japan: Decreased healthy longevity of older people in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Fukuda, Yoshiharu ^a   Nakamura, Keiko ^a   Takano, Takehito ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NURSING; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNEMPLOYMENT; AGED; CITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; LIFE TABLE; LONGEVITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

AGED; CITIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; LINEAR MODELS; LONGEVITY; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY AREAS; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 23244438152     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-65     Document Type: Article

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