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Influence of the Dynamic Character of Chronic Disease on the Interpretation of Morbidity Rates Philip E. Sartwell, and Margaret Merrell CopyRight*Presented before a Joint Session of the Biometrics Society and the Epidemiology and Statistics Sections of the American Public Health Association at the Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif., November 1, 1951.†Paper from the Department of Epidemiology and the Department of Biostatistics (No. 275), School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.42.5_Pt_1.579 Published Online: September 06, 2011
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Philip E. Sartwell,
Margaret Merrell
(1952).
Influence of the Dynamic Character of Chronic Disease on the Interpretation of Morbidity Rates.
American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
, 42
(5_Pt_1)
, 579-584.
https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.42.5_pt_1.579
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