What type of rural? Assessing the variations in life expectancy at birth at small area-level for a small population province using classes of locally defined settlement types

TY - JOUR

T1 - What type of rural? Assessing the variations in life expectancy at birth at small area-level for a small population province using classes of locally defined settlement types

AU - Terashima, Mikiko

AU - Read Guernsey, Judith

AU - Andreou, Pantelis

N1 - Funding Information: MT was supported by the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Strategic Training Program, the Public Health and Agricultural Rural Ecosystem (PHARE) graduate fellowship, Killam Predoctoral Scholarship, and the Atlantic RURAL Centre graduate fellowship. The authors wish to thank Nova Scotia Vital Statistics for providing the data.

PY - 2014/2/13

Y1 - 2014/2/13

KW - Gender

KW - Health inequalities

KW - Life expectancy at birth

KW - Rural health

KW - Small area analysis

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U2 - 10.1186/1471-2458-14-162

DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-14-162

M3 - Article

C2 - 24524307

AN - SCOPUS:84893695657

SN - 1471-2458

VL - 14

JO - BMC Public Health

JF - BMC Public Health

IS - 1

M1 - 162

ER -