Does inequality in self-assessed health predict inequality in survival by income? Evidence from Swedish data

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1621-1629

  Van Doorslaer, Eddy ^a   Gerdtham, Ulf G ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Health inequality; Mortality risk; Self assessed health; Survival; Sweden

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISK; INCOME; MORTALITY; SELF ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SWEDEN;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0042388495     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00559-2     Document Type: Article

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