Correlates of life expectancy in less developed countries
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Correlates of life expectancy in less developed countries.
Analyses were performed to investigate several hypotheses concerning the multiple determinants of levels of life expectancy in developing countries in recent decades and some possible explanation for the observed variations in amount of gain in life expectancy from the 1950's to the 1970's. The findings were significant. For level of life expectancy the results of this present work conform by a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Policy and Education
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0165-2281
DOI: 10.1016/0165-2281(82)90014-5