Do disability pensioners have a higher mortality rate than non-pensioners? Adjusting for potential confounding: A commentary on Hult, Stattin, Janlert and Järvholm

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1487-1488

  Wallman, Thorne ^a,b   Svärdsudd, Kurt ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Sormland County Council   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disability pension; Methods; Mortality

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; MORTALITY; PENSION SYSTEM;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DISABILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; PENSIONER; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORK DISABILITY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE; PENSION; RETIREMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; PENSIONS; RETIREMENT;

EID: 77951898653     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.01.047     Document Type: Note

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