Socioeconomic inequalities in cause specific mortality among older people in France

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Menvielle, Gwenn ^a,b   Leclerc, Annette ^a,b   Chastang, Jean François ^a,b   Luce, Danièle ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77952297577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-260     Document Type: Article

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