Health and urban living

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5864, 2008, Pages 766-769

  Dye, Christopher ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; CIVIL SOCIETY; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HEALTH STATUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CITY PLANNING; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SANITATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ADULT; BIRTH RATE; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 38949176818     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1150198     Document Type: Review

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