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[Epidemiologic diversity].

Abstract

We summarize our results with the adaptation of the so called diversity indexes, often used in the statistical ecology. We refer to the sexual difference of the diversity of death causes, and the specific formation of the diversity of morbidity and mortality by the years of life. We mention the possible explanation of this. It is also a new observation the characteristic change in the concentration of the causes of death measured by diversity indexes. In the second part of the paper we enumerate some possible new branches of research, which should develop the investigations on the epidemiological diversity.

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J Izsàk. 1989. [Epidemiologic diversity].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2787080/

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