Noncommunicable disease mortality and life expectancy in immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union: Country of origin compared with host country

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-29

  Ott, Jördis Jennifer ^a   Paltiel, Ari M ^b   Becher, Heiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b International Relations and Statistical Coordination Department   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIASPORA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISORDER; IMMIGRANT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; ISRAEL; LEUKEMIA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; USSR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; JEWS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; USSR; YOUNG ADULT;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; USSR;

EID: 61449118788     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.07.045138     Document Type: Article

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