Mortality trends among Alaska Native people: Successes and challenges

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

Volumn 72, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Holck, Peter ^a   Day, Gretchen Ehrsam ^a   Provost, Ellen ^a  

^a Alaska Native Epidemiology Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Death; Native American; Suicide; Unintentional injury; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEATH; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INJURY; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNINTENTIONAL INJURY; UNITED STATES; VITAL STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

DEATH; NATIVE AMERICAN; SUICIDE; UNINTENTIONAL INJURY; VITAL STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALASKA; ALCOHOLISM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881303626     PISSN: 12399736     EISSN: 22423982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21185     Document Type: Article

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