Educational inequalities in mortality in four Eastern European countries: Divergence in trends during the post-communist transition from 1990 to 2000

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 512-525

  Leinsalu, Mall ^a,b,c   Stirbu, Irina ^b   Vågerö, Denny ^a,d   Kalèdiené, Ramuné ^e   Kovács, Katalin ^f   Wojtyniak, Bogdan ^g   Wróblewska, Wiktoria ^h   Mackenbach, Johan P ^b   Kunst, Anton E ^b  

^a SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^f Demographic Research Institute   (Hungary)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^h WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Eastern Europe; Inequalities; Mortality; Transition

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; EDUCATION; GENDER RELATIONS; MARGINALIZATION; MORTALITY; POST-COMMUNISM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EASTERN EUROPE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; IDEOLOGY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LITHUANIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUTH CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; POLAND; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; TRACHEA CANCER; TREND STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; COMMUNISM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HUNGARY; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POLAND; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CHANGE;

BALTIC STATES; CENTRAL EUROPE; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE; POLAND;

EID: 64349116916     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn248     Document Type: Article

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