Are Educational Differentials in Adult Mortality Increasing in the United States?

Journal of Aging and Health

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 476-496

  Preston, Samuel H ^a   Elo, Irma T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MORTALITY; SEX FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UNITED STATES; WHITES;

EID: 0028818896     PISSN: 08982643     EISSN: 15526887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089826439500700402     Document Type: Article

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