Individual and spousal education, mortality and life expectancy in Switzerland: A national cohort study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 804-810

  Spoerri, Adrian ^a   Schmidlin, Kurt ^a   Richter, Matthias ^b   Egger, Matthias ^a   Clough Gorr, Kerri M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SPOUSE; SWITZERLAND; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SPOUSES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84905450739     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2013-203714     Document Type: Article

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