Measuring health of countries: A novel approach

HealthMED

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1762-1766

  Jeremic, Veljko ^a   Seke, Kristina ^b   Radojicic, Zoran ^a   Jeremic, Danka ^c   Markovic, Aleksandar ^a   Slovic, Dragoslav ^a   Aleksic, Aca ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Institute of Public Health of Serbia 'Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut'   (Serbia)

^c CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^d Dunav Insurance Company   (Serbia)

Author keywords

I distance method; Measuring health; Ranking of countries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855392767     PISSN: 18402291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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