Mortality amenable to health care and its relation to socio-economic status in Hungary, 2004-08

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 620-624

  Nagy, Csilla ^a   Juhász, Attila ^a   Beale, Linda ^b   Páldy, Anna ^c  

^a Public Health Administration Service of Government Office of Capital City Budapest   (Hungary)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HUNGARY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POVERTY AREAS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866999083     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckr143     Document Type: Article

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