Variations in societal characteristics of spatial dsease clusters: Examples of colon, lung and breast cancer in Japan

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

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

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 27644498929     PISSN: 1476072X     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-4-16     Document Type: Article

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