Diverging trends in cause-specific mortality and life years lost by educational attainment: Evidence from United States vital statistics data, 1990-2010

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Sasson, Isaac ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIOSTATISTICS; BLACK PERSON; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; RACE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; AGE; ALGORITHM; EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRENDS; VITAL STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 84991261543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163412     Document Type: Review

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