Regional variations in mortality and causes of death in Israel, 2009-2013

• Main Authors: Ethel-Sherry Gordon (Author), Ziona Haklai (Author), Jill Meron (Author), Miriam Aburbeh (Author), Inbal Weiss Salz (Author), Yael Applbaum (Author), Nehama F. Goldberger (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Regional variations in mortality can be used to study and assess differences in disease prevalence and factors leading to disease and mortality from different causes. To enable this comparison, it is important to standardize the mortality data to adjust for the effects of regiona...