The contribution of educational inequalities to lifespan variation

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Van Raalte, Alyson A ^a,b   Kunst, Anton E ^c   Lundberg, Olle ^d,e   Leinsalu, Mall ^f,g   Martikainen, Pekka ^h   Artnik, Barbara ⁱ   Deboosere, Patrick ^j   Stirbu, Irina ^b   Wojtyniak, Bogdan ^k   Mackenbach, Johan P ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^j VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^k NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

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Author keywords

Education; International variation; Life expectancy; Lifespan variation; Mortality; Socioeconomic inequality

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; EDUCATION; ENTROPY; LIFE TABLE; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VULNERABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EASTERN EUROPE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN EUROPE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84856935277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-10-3     Document Type: Article

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