Trends in educational inequalities in cause specific mortality in Norway from 1960 to 2010: A turning point for educational inequalities in cause specific mortality of Norwegian men after the millennium?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Strand, Bjørn Heine ^a,b   Steingrímsdóttir, Ólöf Anna ^a   Grøholt, Else Karin ^a   Ariansen, Inger ^a   Graff Iversen, Sidsel ^a   Næss, Øyvind ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Education; Health inequalities; Mortality; Nordic paradox; Norway

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NORWAY; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NORWAY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84927934939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1208     Document Type: Article

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