Socio-economic status and overall and cause-specific mortality in Sweden

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Weires, Marianne ^a   Bermejo, Justo Lorenzo ^a   Sundquist, Kristina ^b   Sundquist, Jan ^b   Hemminki, Kari ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OCCUPATION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWEDEN;

EID: 53649084639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-340     Document Type: Article

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