A nationwide cohort study of educational background and major causes of death among the elderly population in Japan

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 444-451

  Fujino, Yoshihisa ^a,e   Tamakoshi, Akiko ^b   Iso, Hiroyasu ^c   Inaba, Yutaka ^d   Kubo, Tatsuhiko ^a   Ide, Reiko ^a   Ikeda, Ai ^c   Yoshimura, Takesumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Coronary heart disease; Education; External death; Japan; Mortality; Prospective study; Socioeconomic determinants of health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DOCUMENTATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

EID: 7644228401     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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