In amenable mortality-deaths avoidable through health care-progress in the US lags that of three European countries

Health Affairs

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2114-2122

  Nolte, Ellen ^a   McKee, C Martin ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; LEUKEMIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEASLES; MEDICAL ERROR; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PERTUSSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871917014     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0851     Document Type: Article

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