Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 5 , Pages 478-486 , May 2008

Changing pattern of premature mortality burden over 6 years of rapid growth of the economy in suburban south-west China: 1998–2003

  • Le Cai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Information and Economics, Faculty of Public Health, Kunming Medical College, Kunming 650031, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +866674212070x1165; fax: +6674212900/212903.
    • ,
  • Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong

      Affiliations

    • Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90112, Thailand
    • ,
  • Alan Geater

      Affiliations

    • Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90112, Thailand

Received 6 October 2006 ,Revised 18 May 2007 ,Accepted 22 August 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.08.017

Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 5 , Pages 478-486 , May 2008

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