Educational Attainment and Life Expectancy

Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 189-194

  Kaplan, Robert M ^a   Spittel, Michael L ^b   Zeno, Tia L ^b  

^a AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

educational attainment; life expectancy; research needs; social determinants of health; social epidemiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026474896     PISSN: 23727322     EISSN: 23727330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2372732214549754     Document Type: Article

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