Avoidable mortality in Victoria between 1979 and 2001

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-12

  Piers, Leonard S ^a   Carson, Norman J ^a   Brown, Kaye ^a   Ansari, Zahid ^a  

^a Department of Human Services ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDIZATION; STROKE; SUICIDE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALCOHOLISM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DATA COLLECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEOPLASMS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VICTORIA;

EID: 33847697369     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2007.00002.x     Document Type: Article

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