Education and mortality among older adults in China

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue , 2015, Pages 134-142

  Luo, Ye ^a   Zhang, Zhenmei ^b   Gu, Danan ^c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Education; Gender; Mortality; Older adults

Indexed keywords

GENDER RELATIONS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMARY EDUCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; COGNITION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LEISURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE SCHOOL; MORTALITY; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIOECONOMIC ATTAINMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLITARY LEISURE; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN RELATION; LONGEVITY; MALE; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; VERY ELDERLY;

CHINA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHINA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84922319251     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.039     Document Type: Article

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