Educational inequalities in cause-specific mortality in middle-aged and older men and women in eight western European populations

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Volumn 365, Issue 9458, 2005, Pages 493-500

  Huisman, Martijn ^a   Kunst, Anton E ^a   Bopp, Matthias ^b   Borgan, Jens Kristian ^c   Borrell, Carme ^d   Costa, Giuseppe ^e   Deboosere, Patrick ^f   Gadeyne, Sylvie ^f   Glickman, Myer ^g   Marinacci, Chiara ^e   Minder, Christoph ^h   Regidor, Enrique ⁱ   Valkonen, Tapani ^j   Mackenbach, Johan P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

^d AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^f FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^g OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MADRID   (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 13444291449     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)70273-7     Document Type: Article

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