Impact of changes in specificity of data recording on cause-specific injury mortality in the United States, 1999-2010

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hu, Guoqing ^a   Mamady, Keita ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; DROWNING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INJURY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCIDENTS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DROWNING; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941058089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1010     Document Type: Article

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