Occupational class inequalities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality among middle-aged men in 14 European populations during the early 2000s

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Toch Marquardt, Marlen ^a,b   Menvielle, Gwenn ^c,d   Eikemo, Terje A ^a,b   Kulhánová, Ivana ^b   Kulik, Margarete C ^b   Bopp, Matthias ^e   Esnaola, Santiago ^f   Jasilionis, Domantas ^g   Mäki, Netta ^h   Martikainen, Pekka ^h   Regidor, Enrique ⁱ   Lundberg, Olle ^j   Mackenbach, Johan P ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUT PIERRE LOUIS D EPIDÉMIOLOGIE ET DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f Service of Studies and Research   (Spain)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁱ SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Spain)

^j STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; FINLAND; FRANCE; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL CLASS INEQUALITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SCIENCE; POPULATION ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL; TRENDS;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; EUROPE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907494793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108072     Document Type: Article

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