Mortality among married older adults in the suburbs of Beirut: Estimates from offspring data

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 482-486

  Sibai, A M ^a   Kanaan, M N ^a   Chaaya, M ^a   Campbell, O M R ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CENSUS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MORTALITY RISK; SAMPLING; SUBURBAN AREA; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FATHER; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LEBANON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MALE; MARRIAGE; MARRIED MAN; MARRIED WOMAN; MORTALITY; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; POPULATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOM SAMPLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBURBAN AREA; SURVIVAL; WAR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX FACTORS; SUBURBAN POPULATION; WAR;

ASIA; BEIRUT; BEYROUTH; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 34250020235     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.06.032847     Document Type: Article

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