Municipal socioeconomic status and mortality in Japan: Sex and age differences, and trends in 1973-1998

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2435-2445

  Fukuda, Yoshiharu ^a   Nakamura, Keiko ^a   Takano, Takehito ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Health inequality; Japan; Mortality; Small area study; Socioeconomic factor

Indexed keywords

AGE; HEALTH STATUS; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DEATH; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCOME; JAPAN; MALE; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN HEALTH;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 5144219601     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.04.012     Document Type: Article

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