Employment grade differences in cause specific mortality. A 25 year follow up of civil servants from the first Whitehall study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 178-184

  Van Rossum, Caroline T M ^a   Shipley, Martin J ^b   Van De Mheen, Hendrike ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^c   Marmot, Michael G ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMPLOYMENT; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BRONCHITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLESTEROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 1642618150     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.54.3.178     Document Type: Article

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