The healthy immigrant effect and mortality rates

Health Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Ng, Edward ^a  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age standardized mortality rate; Death rate; Longitudinal; Record linkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857660804     PISSN: 08406529     EISSN: 12091367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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