Mortality in adults aged 26-54 years related to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood: Post war birth cohort study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 325, Issue 7372, 2002, Pages 1076-1080

  Kuh, Diana ^a   Hardy, Rebecca ^a   Langenberg, Claudia ^a   Richards, Marcus ^a   Wadsworth, Michael E J ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MORTALITY; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; WAR;

EID: 0037049031     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1076     Document Type: Article

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