Do childhood cognitive ability or smoking behaviour explain the influence of lifetime socio-economic conditions on premature adult mortality in a British post war birth cohort?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1565-1573

  Kuh, Diana ^a   Shah, Imran ^a   Richards, Marcus ^a   Mishra, Gita ^a   Wadsworth, Michael ^a   Hardy, Rebecca ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth cohort study; Childhood cognitive ability; Cigarette smoking; Life course; Mortality; Socio economic conditions; UK

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD HEALTH; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; MORTALITY RISK; OWNERSHIP; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; WAR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOUSING; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 65249137096     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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