Public Health
Volume 120, Issue 11 , Pages 1055-1063 , November 2006

Trends in rural and urban differentials in incidence rates for ruptured appendicitis under the National Health Insurance in Taiwan

  • N. Huang

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Public Health, National Yang Ming University, 155 Ni-Long Street, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • W. Yip

      Affiliations

    • Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • H-J. Chang

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Public Health, National Yang Ming University, 155 Ni-Long Street, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Y-J. Chou

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Public Health, National Yang Ming University, 155 Ni-Long Street, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886228201458; fax: +886228261002.

Received 5 July 2005 ,Revised 3 April 2006 ,Accepted 20 June 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.06.011

Public Health
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