Epidemiological transition in rural Bangladesh, 1986-2006

Global Health Action

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Karar, Zunaid Ahsan ^a   Alam, Nurul ^b   Streatfield, Peter Kim ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Cause of death; Epidemiological transition; Matlab; Mortality; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871588092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.1904     Document Type: Article

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