Educational differences in life expectancy over five decades among the oldest old in Norway

Age and Ageing

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1040-1045

  Kinge, Jonas Minet ^a,b   Steingrímsdóttir, Ólöf Anna ^a   Moe, Joakim Oliu ^b   Skirbekk, Vegard ^a,c   Næss, Øyvind ^a,b   Strand, Bjørn Heine ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Life expectancy; Norway, older people; Oldest old; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREND STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LIFE TABLE; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; NORWAY; REGISTRIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84947717901     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afv128     Document Type: Article

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