Effect of education and marital status on premature mortality among Urban Adults in Poland, 1988-1989

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 397-403

  Welon, Zygmunt ^a   Bielicki, Tadeusz ^a   Rogucka, Elzbieta ^a   Malina, Robert M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001197168     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6300(1999)11:3<397::AID-AJHB10>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Bielicki T. 1986. Physical growth as a measure of the economic well-being of populations: the twentieth century. In: Falkner F, Tanner JM, editors. Human growth - a comprehensive treatise. Vol. 3. New York: Plenum, p 283-305.
2. Bielicki T. 1995. Human family organization in the anthropological perspective. In: Polish Academy of Sciences, editor. The family: its adaptive and protective function. Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences. p 9-22.
3. Bielicki T, Brajczewski C, Rogucka E, Welon Z. 1994. Niektore spoleczne I ekologiczne uwarunkowania przedwczesnej umieralnosci osob doroslych w Polsce (the effects of social class differences and of industrial pollution on rates of mid-life mortality in Poland). Monografie Zakladu Antropologii, Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wroclaw, nr. 12.
4. Black D, Morris JN, Smith C, Townsend C, Whitehead M. 1998. Inequalities in health: the black report, the health divide. London: Penguin.
5. Blaxter M. 1976. Social class and health inequalities. In: Carter CO, Peel J, editors. Equalities and inequalities in health. London: Academic Press, p 111-125.
6. Boyd M. 1983. Marriage and death. In: Ishwaran K, editor. Marriage and divorce in Canada. Toronto: Methuen; p 89-106.
7. Brajczewski C, Rogucka E. 1993. Social class differences in rates of premature mortality among adults the city of Wroclaw, Poland. Am J Hum Biol 5:461-471.
8. Gronkiewicz L. 1996. Roznice spoleczne w cechach biologicznych ludnosci Polski (social gradients in the population of Poland: conspicuous in stature, absent in genetic markers). Monografie Zakladu Antropologii, Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wroclaw, nr. 14.
9. Glowny Urzad Statystyczny. 1992. Rocznik Statystyczny (Statistical Yearbook). Warsaw: Glowny Urzad Statystyczny.
10. House JS, Landis KR, Umberson D. 1988. Social relationship and health. Science 241:540-545.
11. Kisker FF, Goldman N. 1987. Perils of single life and benefits of marriage. Soc Biol 34:135-152.
12. Kobrin FE, Hendershot GE. 1977. Do family ties reduce mortality? Evidence from the United States, 1966-1968. J Marriage Fam 39:737-745.
13. Kolodziej H. 1996. Wplyw wybranych elementow stylu zycia na kondycje biologiczna mezczyzn w wieku 40-50 lat (the impact of certain aspects of lifestyle on biological fitness of men aged 40-50 years). Doctoral dissertation, Library of the Institute of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw (in Polish).
14. Kotler P, Wingard DL. 1989. The effect of occupation, marital status and roles on mortality: the Alameda County Study. Am J Pub Health 79:607-612.
15. Ladbrook D. 1990. Sex differentials in premature death among professionals. J Austral Pop Assoc 7:1-26.
16. McMichael H. 1985. Social class (as estimated by occupational prestige) and mortality in Australian males in the 1970's. Com Health Stud 9:220-230.
17. McPherson BD. 1983. Aging as a social process. Toronto: Butterworth.
18. Power C, Manor O, Fox J. 1991. Health and class: the early years. London: Chapman and Hall.
19. Rao CR. 1953. Discriminant function for genetic differentiation. Sankya, Indian Journal of Statistics 12, 3, VI (Calcutta).
20. Rogucka E. 1995. Spoleczne uwarunkowania nadumieralnosci mezczyzn w Polsce (social differences in an excess of male's over female's mortality in Poland). Monografie Zakladu Antropologii, Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wroclaw, nr. 13.
21. Rogucka E, Bielicki T. 1998. Social contrasts in the incidence of obesity among adult large-city dwellers in Poland in 1986 and 1996. J Biosoc Sci (in press).
22. Seal H. 1966. Multivariate statistical analysis for biologists. London: Methuen.
23. Trovato F, Lauris G. 1989. Marital status and mortality in Canada: 1951-1981. J Marriage Fam 51:907-922.
24. Valkonen T, Martelin T, Rimpela A. 1990. Socioeconomic mortality differences in Finland, 1971-85. Helsinki: Central Statistical Office of Finland.
25. Verbrugge LM. 1985. Gender and health: an update on hypotheses and evidence. J Health Soc Behav 30:282-304.
26. World Bank. 1993. World development report 1993: investing in health. New York: Oxford University Press.