Ethnic and gender specific life expectancies of the Singapore population, 1965 to 2009 - Converging, or diverging?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lim, Raymond Boon Tar ^a   Zheng, Huili ^a   Yang, Qian ^a   Cook, Alex Richard ^a   Chia, Kee Seng ^a   Lim, Wei Yen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Converging; Diverging; Ethnic differences; Gender differences; Life expectancy; Mortality; Singapore

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGAPORE; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX FACTORS; SINGAPORE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886193145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1012     Document Type: Review

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