Integration of specificity variation in cause-of-death analysis

Historical Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-44

  Padiak, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Classification; Relational database; Specificity; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA PROCESSING; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 2642524309     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: 19401906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/HMTS.37.1.39-44     Document Type: Article

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