The Latin American Social Medicine Database: A resource for epidemiology

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 724-728

  Waitzkin, Howard ^a,d   Iriart, Celia ^b   Buchanan, Holly Shipp ^c   Mercado, Francisco ^d   Tregear, Jonathan ^c   Eldredge, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; DATABASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL MEDICINE DATABASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLISHING; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL MEDICINE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; VIOLENCE;

BRAZIL; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL MEDICINE;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 48349098166     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn148     Document Type: Article

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