Monitoring of trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality

This paper presents estimates of changes in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality between the 1980s and the 1990s in nine European countries. The best available evidence shows that relative inequalities in mortality generally widened, while the absolute gap remains about the same. However, the pac...

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Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2004-04-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/special/2/9/