Educational level as a contextual and proximate determinant of all cause mortality in Danish adults

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 266-269

  Osler, M ^a   Prescott, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b The Capital Region   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL IMPACT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; EDUCATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

DENMARK;

EID: 0037383796     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.57.4.266     Document Type: Article

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