A life table approach to small area health need profiling

Statistical Modeling

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 63-88

  Congdon, Peter ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

health need; health resourcing; healthy life expectancy; life tables; long term illness; spatial correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993660867     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1471082x02st026oa     Document Type: Article

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