Material, psychosocial, and behavioural factors in the explanation of educational inequalities in mortality in the Netherlands

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 214-220

  Van Oort, Floor V A ^a   Van Lenthe, Frank J ^a   Mackenbach, Johan P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; MORTALITY RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOUSING; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; POVERTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 14344261287     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2003.016493     Document Type: Article

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