Socio-economic inequalities in health expectancy in Belgium

Public Health

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-10

  Bossuyt, Nathalie ^a   Gadeyne, S ^b   Deboosere, P ^b   Van Oyen, H ^a  

^a SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUITY; HEALTH STATUS; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EDUCATION; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RATING SCALE; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0346888656     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3506(03)00130-6     Document Type: Article

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