Commentary: Extreme cause-specific mortality in a cohort of adult prisoners - 1988 to 2002: A data-linkage study

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 317-318

  Christensen, Peer ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; METHADONE;

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG OVERDOSE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS C; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LIVER INJURY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PRISONER; PUNISHMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE;

AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; PRISONERS; SOCIAL CLASS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 34447523826     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dym014     Document Type: Note

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