How does socioeconomic development affect risk of mortality? An age-period-cohort analysis from a recently transitioned population in China

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 345-356

  Chung, Roger Y ^a   Schooling, C Mary ^a   Cowling, Benjamin J ^a   Leung, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Chronic disease; Health transition; Hong Kong; Mortality; Myocardial ischemia; Obesity; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

AGE; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MORTALITY RISK; POPULATION MIGRATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIRTH RATE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 75149168356     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp378     Document Type: Article

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