Mortality and Life Expectancy in Homeless Men and Women in Rotterdam: 2001-2010

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Nusselder, Wilma J ^a   Slockers, Marcel T ^a   Krol, Luuk ^b   Slockers, Colette T ^a   Looman, Caspar W N ^a   van Beeck, Ed F ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Public Health Service of the Rotterdam Region   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEALTH SERVICE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE METHOD; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; SOCIAL WORK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884891276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073979     Document Type: Article

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