Marital history 1971-91 and mortality 1991-2004 in England & Wales and Finland

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 30-36

  Blomgren, Jenni ^a,b   Martikainen, Pekka ^c   Grundy, Emily ^d   Koskinen, Seppo ^b  

^a SOCIAL INSURANCE INSTITUTION   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; HEALTH IMPACT; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; MORTALITY RISK; POISSON RATIO; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK; SOCIAL CLASS; TIME FACTORS; WALES;

ENGLAND; FINLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 84856021324     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2010.110635     Document Type: Article

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