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International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(5):1358; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl179
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

Letter to the Editor

Examining cause-specific mortality effects of economic crisis in a country with rapidly declining total mortality

YOUNG-HO KHANG1,*, JOHN W LYNCH2 and GEORGE A KAPLAN3

1 Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
2 Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
3 Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

* Corresponding author. Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1 Pungnap-2Dong Songpa-Gu, Seoul, 138-736 Korea. E-mail: youngk@amc.seoul.kr

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In his letter1 on our paper2 Tapia Granados suggested that we were obviously looking for increments in mortality. However, looking for mortality upsurges followed by an economic recession was not our mission in the paper. Rather, we were concerned about why all-cause mortality was so reluctant to respond to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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