Socioeconomic factors and all cause and cause-specific mortality among older people in Latin America, India, and China: A population-based cohort study

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ferri, Cleusa P ^a   Acosta, Daisy ^b   Guerra, Mariella ^a,c   Huang, Yueqin ^d   Llibre Rodriguez, Juan J ^a,e   Salas, Aquiles ^f,g   Sosa, Ana Luisa ^a,h   Williams, Joseph D ⁱ   Gaona, Ciro ^j   Liu, Zhaorui ^d   Noriega Fernandez, Lisseth ^k   Jotheeswaran, A T ^l   Prince, Martin J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena   (Dominican Republic)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY SIXTH HOSPITAL   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA   (Cuba)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CARACAS   (Venezuela)

^g UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

ⁱ The Voluntary Health Services Chennai   (India)

^j Clinica Loira   (Venezuela)

^k Mental Health Community Centre of Marianao   (Cuba)

^l PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOOD SECURITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LATIN AMERICA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84857699507     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001179     Document Type: Article

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