Years of potential life lost in residents affected by floods in Hunan, China

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 299-304

  Li, Xingli ^a   Tan, Hongzhuan ^a   Li, Shuoqi ^a   Zhou, Jia ^a   Liu, Aizhong ^a   Yang, Tubao ^a   Wen, Shi Wu ^a,b   Sun, Zhenqiu ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attributable risk; China; Epidemiology; Mortality; Natural disaster; Years of potential life lost

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CHILD; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOODING; HUMAN; INFANT; INTOXICATION; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIVER; SANITATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTERS; NEOPLASMS; POISONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIVERS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33845952063     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2006.05.011     Document Type: Article

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