Role of diagnoses and socioeconomic status in mortality among disability pensioners in Norway - A population-based cohort study

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 479-482

  Gjesdal, Sturla ^a,b   Mæland, John Gunnar ^a   Svedberg, Pia ^b   Hagberg, Jan ^b   Alexanderson, Kristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Medical condition

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NORWAY; PENSIONER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; WORK DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; MIDDLE AGED; PENSION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NORWAY; PENSIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 61549109286     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: 1795990X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.1286     Document Type: Article

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