Burden of disease in Thailand: Changes in health gap between 1999 and 2004

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bundhamcharoen, Kanitta ^a   Odton, Patarapan ^a   Phulkerd, Sirinya ^a   Tangcharoensathien, Viroj ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; THAILAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COST OF ILLNESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; THAILAND; WORLD HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78951472317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-53     Document Type: Article

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