Mortality by education in German speaking Switzerland, 1990-1997: Results from the Swiss National Cohort

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 346-354

  Bopp, Matthias ^a   Minder, Christoph E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Census; Cohort studies; Data linkage; Death records; Differential mortality; Educational status; Europe; Female; Inequality; Longitudinal; Mortality; Record linkage; Socioeconomic factors; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0037967256     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg072     Document Type: Article

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