Educational inequalities in life expectancy in the German speaking part of Switzerland between 1990 and 1997: Swiss National Cohort

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 136, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 145-148

  Spoerri, Adrian ^a   Zwahlen, Marcel ^a   Egger, Matthias ^a,c   Gutzwiller, Felix ^b   Minder, Christoph ^a   Bopp, Matthias ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Social and Preventive Medicine ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Census; Cohort study; Education; Inequality; Life expectancy; Record linkage; Socio economic status; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33645318435     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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