Political conditions and life expectancy in Europe, 1900-2008

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 134-146

  Mackenbach, Johan P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autocracy; Communism; Democracy; European Union; Infectious disease control; Life expectancy; Politics; State formation

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNISM; DEMOCRACY; DISEASE CONTROL; EUROPEAN UNION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; TRAJECTORY;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BALKAN PENINSULA; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DECISION MAKING; EASTERN EUROPE; ESTONIA; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IRELAND; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED KINGDOM; USSR; WESTERN EUROPE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; EUROPE; FEMALE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84875251657     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.12.022     Document Type: Article

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