Ageing of a rural Ethiopian population: who are the survivors?

Public Health

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 326-330

  Fantahun, M ^a,b   Berhane, Y ^a,b   Hogberg U ^b   Wall, S ^b   Byass, P ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Demographic surveillance site; Elderly; Gender; Illiteracy; Life expectancy; Survival; Widowhood

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENDER; LIFE EXPECTANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; PROBABILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TREND STUDY; WIDOW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; WIDOWHOOD;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 64949171478     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.10.019     Document Type: Article

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