Young adult and middle age mortality in Butajira demographic surveillance site, Ethiopia: Lifestyle, gender and household economy

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fantahun, Mesganaw ^a,b   Berhane, Yemane ^a,b   Högberg, Ulf ^b   Wall, Stig ^b   Byass, Peter ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN POPULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 50249086082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-268     Document Type: Article

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