Rising inequality in mortality among working-age men and women in Sweden: A national registrybased repeated cohort study, 1990-2007

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1145-1150

  Kondo, Naoki ^a   Rostila, Mikael ^b   Yngwe, Monica Åberg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; INCOME; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

SWEDEN;

ADULT; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; REGISTER; SWEDEN; TRENDS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; REGISTRIES; SWEDEN;

EID: 84911364156     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2013-203619     Document Type: Article

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