Ethnic mortality differentials in Lithuania: Contradictory evidence from census-linked and unlinked mortality estimates

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Jasilionis, Domantas ^a   Stankuniene, Vlada ^b   Ambrozaitiene, Dalia ^c   Jdanov, Dmitri A ^a   Shkolnikov, Vladimir M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Lithuanian Social Research Centre   (Lithuania)

^c Statistics Lithuania   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DIVORCE; ETHNICITY; MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; POISSON RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

LITHUANIA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CENSUSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84863996886     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2011.133967     Document Type: Article

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