Widening socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in six Western European countries
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Widening socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in six Western European countries.
OBJECTIVES During the past decades a widening of the relative gap in death rates between upper and lower socioeconomic groups has been reported for several European countries. Although differential mortality decline for cardiovascular diseases has been suggested as an important contributory factor, it is not known what its quantitative contribution was, and to what extent other causes of death ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg209