Home ownership and mortality: A register-based follow-up study of 300 000 Finns

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 293-297

  Laaksonen, M ^a   Martikainen, P ^a   Nihtila E ^a   Rahkonen, O ^a   Lahelma, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HOUSING; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OCCUPATION; OWNERSHIP; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INFECTION; LUNG CANCER; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOUSING; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OWNERSHIP; REGISTRIES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 41149100543     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2007.061309     Document Type: Article

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