Impact on mortality of the AIDS epidemic in northern Namibia assessed using parish registers

AIDS

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1061-1065

  Notkola, Veijo ^a,b,e   Timæus, Ian M ^c   Siiskonen, Harri ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Rehabilitation Foundation Finland   (Finland)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^e NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

AIDS; Mortality; Namibia; Parish records

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; NAMIBIA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NAMIBIA; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 2342635294     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200404300-00015     Document Type: Article

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