Association between gross domestic product throughout the life course and old-age mortality across birth cohorts: Parallel analyses of seven European countries, 1950-1999

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 239-254

  Janssen, Fanny ^a   Kunst, Anton E ^a   Mackenbach, Johan P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causes of death; Elderly; Life course; Mortality; Socio economic circumstances; Trends

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; CHILD MORTALITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASE; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WOMENS HEALTH;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BIRTH; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DENMARK; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EUROPE; FINLAND; FRANCE; INCOME; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; NORWAY; PROSTATE CANCER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; ECONOMICS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

BENELUX; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; FRANCE; NETHERLANDS; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646354154     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.11.040     Document Type: Article

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