Morbidity of native, immigrant, and returned refugee populations in family medicine practice in Croatia after 1991-1995 war

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 990-995

  Torinek, Tatjana ^a   Katić, Milica ^b   Kern, Josipa ^b  

^a Family Medicine Practice   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMIGRANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT; PATIENT CODING; PREVALENCE; REFUGEE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; WAR;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROATIA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFUGEES; WAR;

EID: 31744446528     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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