Failing health of the United States

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 360, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Woolf, Steven H ^a   Aron, Laudan ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; EDITORIAL; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDE;

FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85041736207     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k496     Document Type: Editorial

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