Social inequalities in mortality in older women cannot be explained by biological and health behavioural factors — results from a Norwegian health survey (the HUNT Study)

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 401-408

  Rostad, Berit ^a   Schei, Berit ^a   Lund Nilsen, Tom Ivar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aged women; marital status; mortality; socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MANUAL LABOR; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MARITAL STATUS; MORTALITY; NORWAY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 66849089395     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1403494809102777     Document Type: Article

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