Educational inequalities in cancer mortality differ greatly between countries around the Baltic Sea

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 454-464

  Ezendam, Nicole P M ^a   Stirbu, Irina ^a   Leinsalu, Mall ^b   Lundberg, Olle ^c   Kalediene, Ramune ^d   Wojtyniak, Bogdan ^e   Martikainen, Pekka ^f   Mackenbach, Johan ^a   Kunst, Anton ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cancer; Estonia; Finland; Inequalities; Lithuania; Mortality; Poland; Socio economic; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESTONIA; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; LUNG CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BALTIC STATES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; POLAND; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 38749134882     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2007.11.015     Document Type: Article

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