Ageing, the urban-rural gap and disability trends: 19 years of experience in China - 1987 to 2006

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Peng, Xiaoxia ^a   Song, Shige ^b   Sullivan, Sheena ^c   Qiu, Jingjun ^a   Wang, Wei ^a,c,d  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREVALENCE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; TREND STUDY; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABLED PERSON; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DISABLED PERSONS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957905549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012129     Document Type: Article

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