Global Inequalities in Youth Mortality, 2007-2012
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Global Inequalities in Youth Mortality, 2007-2012
OBJECTIVES There is limited cross-national research on youth mortality. We examined age-and gender-variations in all-cause mortality among youth aged 15-34 years across 52 countries. METHODS Using the 2014 WHO mortality database, mortality rates for all countries were computed for the latest available year between 2007 and 2012. Rates, rate ratios, and ordinary least squares (OLS) and Poisson...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of MCH and AIDS (IJMA)
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2161-8674,2161-864X
DOI: 10.21106/ijma.38