Associations of cause-specific mortality with area level deprivation and travel time to health care in France from 1990 to 2007, a multilevel analysis

Abstract Background It is now widely accepted that social and physical environment participate in shaping health. While mortality is used to guide public health policies and is considered as a synthetic measure of population health, few studies deals with the contextual features potentially associat...

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Main Authors: Walid Ghosn, Gwenn Menvielle, Stéphane Rican, Grégoire Rey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:BMC Public Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-017-4562-7