Ethnicity and childhood mortality in The Netherlands
Background: This paper describes the rates and the causes of differences in childhood mortality between Turkish, Moroccan and native Dutch children in The Netherlands. Methods: Retrospective analysis of all routinely collected death certificates of 0–15 year old children who died between 1979 and 1993. In total 20,211 death certificates of which 1,764 of Turkish and Moroccan children were analysed. Childhood mortality was divided into four age periods, analysed according to ICD-9 codes and measured over three five-year periods. Results: Compared to native Dutch children, the relative mortality... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1999 |
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Oxford University Press
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Schlagwörter: | Articles |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Link(s) : | http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/9/3/205 |