Early life socioeconomic conditions in rural areas and old-age mortality in twentieth-century Quebec

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1497-1504

  Gagnon, Alain ^a   Bohnert, Nora ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Early life; Mortality; Quebec; Record linkage; Sample selection; Shared frailty; Socioeconomic conditions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH STATUS; MORTALITY RISK; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SURVIVAL; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CANADA; COST OF LIVING; EFFECT SIZE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGEVITY; LOW RISK POPULATION; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; URBAN AREA; VITAL STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENSUSES; FEMALE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUEBEC; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84864587873     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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