Association of socioeconomic position with smoking and mortality: The contribution of early life circumstances in the 1946 birth cohort

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 275-279

  Giesinger, Ingrid ^a   Goldblatt, Peter ^a   Howden Chapman, Philippa ^b   Marmot, Michael ^a   Kuh, Diana ^c   Brunner, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; INEQUALITIES; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOTHER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

COHORT STUDIES; INEQUALITIES; MORTALITY; SMOKING; SOCIO-ECONOMIC;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOTHERS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; WALES;

EID: 84894101822     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2013-203159     Document Type: Article

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