The potential impact of a social redistribution of specific risk factors on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: Illustration of a method based on population attributable fractions

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 56-62

  Hoffmann, Rasmus ^a   Eikemo, Terje Andreas ^a   Kulhánova, Ivana ^a   Dahl, Espen ^b   Deboosere, Patrick ^c   Dźurov́, Dagmar ^d   van Oyen, Herman ^e   Rychtanŕikov́, Jitka ^d   Strand, Bjørn Heine ^b   Mackenbach, Johan P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BODY MASS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

BELGIUM; CZECH REPUBLIC; NORWAY;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORWAY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLISM; BELGIUM; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSE OF DEATH; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORWAY; OBESITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85027925321     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2011-200886     Document Type: Article

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