Ten year trends in health inequalities among older people, 1993-2003

Age and Ageing

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 613-617

  Sulander, Tommi ^a,b   Rahkonen, Ossi ^a   Nummela, Olli ^c   Uutela, Antti ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Age Institute   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; TREND STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 69449098998     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afp125     Document Type: Letter

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