Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality from conditions amenable to medical interventions: Do they reflect inequalities in access or quality of health care?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Plug, Iris ^a   Hoffmann, Rasmus ^a   Artnik, Barbara ^b   Bopp, Matthias ^c   Borrell, Carme ^d   Costa, Giuseppe ^e,f   Deboosere, Patrick ^g   Esnaola, Santi ^h   Kalediene, Ramune ⁱ   Leinsalu, Mall ^j,k   Lundberg, Olle ^l   Martikainen, Pekka ^m   Regidor, Enrique ⁿ   Rychtarikova, Jitka ^o   Strand, Björn Heine ^p   Wojtyniak, Bogdan ^q   MacKenbach, Johan P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e ASL TO3 Piedmont Regio   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^g VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^h Research Unit   (Spain)

ⁱ LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^j SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^k NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^l CHESS   (Sweden)

^m UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁿ UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^o CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^p NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^q NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84860822086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-346     Document Type: Article

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