Epidemiological transition in Venezuela: Relationships between infectious diarrheas, ischemic heart diseases and motor vehicles accidents mortalities and the Human Development Index (HDI) in Venezuela, 2005-2007

Journal of Infection and Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 95-97

  Risquez, Alejandro ^a   Echezuria, Luis ^a   Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^c Direction of Environmental Health   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Chronic diseases; Development; Diarrhea; Epidemiologial transition; Infection

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; READING; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VENEZUELA;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DYSENTERY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VENEZUELA;

EID: 77957017002     PISSN: 18760341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2010.05.002     Document Type: Letter

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