A meta-analysis of education effects on chronic disease: The causal dynamics of the Population Education Transition Curve

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue , 2015, Pages 29-40

  Smith, William C ^a,b   Anderson, Emily ^a   Salinas, Daniel ^a,c   Horvatek, Renata ^a   Baker, David P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

^c OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Education; Epidemiological Transition; Heterogeneous effects; Meta analysis; Population education transition curve

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; META-ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION EDUCATION TRANSITION CURVE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VASCULAR DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEALTH DISPARITY; MENTAL HEALTH; META ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHRONIC DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MENTAL HEALTH; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84922331267     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.027     Document Type: Article

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