Coming home to die? the association between migration and mortality in rural South Africa

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Welaga, Paul ^a   Hosegood, Victoria ^b,c   Weiner, Renay ^d   Hill, Caterina ^c   Herbst, Kobus ^c   Newell, Marie Louise ^c,e  

^a NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; ADOLESCENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68149179803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-193     Document Type: Article

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