Effects of socio-economic status on mortality: Separating the nearby from the farther away

Health Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 595-608

  Smits, Jeroen ^a,d   Keij Deerenberg, Ingeborg ^b   Westert, Gert ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Area socio economic status; Farther away; Mortality; Nearby

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 20444378857     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.950     Document Type: Article

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