Uncontrolled migrations as a cause of inequality in health and mortality in small-area studies

Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 411-418

  Ocaña Riola, Ricardo ^a   Fernández Ajuria, Alberto ^a   Mayoral Cortés, José María ^b   Toro Cárdenas, Silvia ^a   Sánchez Cantalejo, Carmen ^a  

^a ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

^b JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH STATUS; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RELIABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS;

EID: 67651089761     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e318196aaf4     Document Type: Article

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