Educational inequalities in mortality and associated risk factors: German- versus French-speaking Switzerland

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Faeh, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77956801334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-567     Document Type: Article

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