Analysing changes of health inequalities in the Nordic welfare states

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 609-625

  Lahelma, Eero ^a   Kivelä, Katariina ^a   Roos, Eva ^a   Tuominen, Terhi ^a   Dahl, Espen ^b   Diderichsen, Finn ^c   Elstad, Jon Ivar ^d   Lissau, Inge ^e   Lundberg, Olle ^f   Rahkonen, Ossi ^a   Rasmussen, Niels Kristian ^e   Yngwe, Monica Åberg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Fafo Research Foundation   (Norway)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d NORWEGIAN SOCIAL RESEARCH NOVA   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Health inequalities; Nordic countries

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; NORWAY; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NORWAY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; TIME;

DENMARK; FINLAND; NORWAY; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036299991     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00191-5     Document Type: Article

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