Influences on place of death in Botswana

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 177-185

  Lazenby, Mark ^a   Ma, Tony ^a   Moffat, Howard J ^b   Funk, Marjorie ^a   Knobf, M Tish ^a   McCorkle, Ruth ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b Department of HIV AIDS Prevention and Care   (Botswana)

Author keywords

HIV AIDS; Influences on home or hospital death; Place of death; Southern Africa; Verbal autopsies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BOTSWANA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REGISTER; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TERMINAL CARE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BOTSWANA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOME NURSING; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONS; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 77957002351     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951509990939     Document Type: Article

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