Mortality trends and potential years of life lost in the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, 1985-2000

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 122-131

  Ivery, Marsha A ^a   Legell, G ^b   Boisson, E V ^a   Hinds, A ^a  

^a Caribbean Epidemiology Centre   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HEART DISEASE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PROSTATE CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WEST INDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 48449105124     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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