What’s the difference? A gender perspective on understanding educational inequalities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality

Abstract Background Material and behavioural factors play an important role in explaining educational inequalities in mortality, but gender differences in these contributions have received little attention thus far. We examined the contribution of a range of possible mediators to relative educationa...

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Main Authors: Karen van Hedel, Frank J. van Lenthe, Joost Oude Groeniger, Johan P. Mackenbach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-09-01
Series:BMC Public Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-018-5940-5