What do we really know about adult mortality worldwide?

The Lancet

Volumn 375, Issue 9727, 2010, Pages 1668-1670

  Koyanagi, Ai ^a   Shibuya, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TUBERCULOSIS; VALIDITY;

EID: 77952103115     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60629-0     Document Type: Note

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