Excess mortality of unemployed men and women during a period of rapidly increasing unemployment

Lancet

Volumn 348, Issue 9032, 1996, Pages 909-912

  Martikainen, Pekka T ^a   Valkonen, Tapani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 0030571199     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)03291-6     Document Type: Article

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