Socioeconomic inequalities in coronary heart disease and stroke mortality among Australian men, 1979-1993

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 266-275

  Bennett, Stan ^a,b  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY RISK; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; STROKE;

AGE FACTORS; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGY; CAUSES OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR EFFECTS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; DISEASES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; HEART DISEASES; HUMAN RESOURCES; INEQUALITIES; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONS; OCEANIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CORONARY DISEASE; DEATH CERTIFICATES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIFE STYLE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC DISPARITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0029669709     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/25.2.266     Document Type: Article

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