Smokers' increased risk for disability pension: Social confounding or health-mediated effects? Gender-specific analyses of the hordaland health study cohort

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 758-764

  Haukenes, Inger ^a   Riise, Trond ^a   Haug, Kjell ^a   Farbu, Erlend ^a   Maeland, John Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SURVEY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH SURVEY; PENSION SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VULNERABILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NORWAY; PENSION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETIREMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF-RATED HEALTH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

DISABILITY; SELF-RATED HEALTH; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ADULT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NORWAY; PENSIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETIREMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

HORDALAND; NORWAY;

EID: 84885372137     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2012-202182     Document Type: Article

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