Urban and rural variations in morbidity and mortality in Northern Ireland

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  O'Reilly, Gareth ^a   O'Reilly, Dermot ^a   Rosato, Michael ^a   Connolly, Sheelah ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; CAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; LUNG TUMOR; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILES; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CENSUSES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NORTHERN IRELAND; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RURAL HEALTH; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 34447281968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-123     Document Type: Article

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