Routes to low mortality in poor countries revisited

Population and Development Review

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 655-692

  Kuhn, Randall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HUMAN CAPITAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIOECONOMICS;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROUPS; POVERTY; POVERTY AREAS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

CHINA; COSTA RICA; CUBA; LATIN AMERICA; VIET NAM;

EID: 78650163934     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2010.00353.x     Document Type: Article

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