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Educational inequalities in mortality over four decades in Norway
— prospective study of middle aged men and women followed for cause specific mortality, 1960-2000 | | Author(s) | Bjorn Heine Strand, Else-Karin Groholt, Olöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 340, no 7746, 13 March 2010 |
| Pages | p 582 |
| Source | www.bmj.com doi: 10.1136/bmj.c654 |
| Keywords | Death rate [statistics] ; Middle aged ; Economic status [elderly] ; Educational status [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; Norway. |
| Annotation | Inequalities in mortality by educational level are widening in Western populations and the reasons for this are not clear. In this study, the whole Norwegian population aged 45-64 years in 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990 was followed up over 10 years, to ascertain to what extent educational inequalities in relation to mortality widened during 1960-2000 and what causes of death contributed to this disparity. The main drivers for widening inequality in Norway were smoking-related causes of death such as lung cancer and chronic lower respiratory tract diseases, as well as cardiovascular diseases for men. This is a summary of results of a study published in full on bmj.com. The authors suggest that the mechanisms behind their findings are likely to be generalisable to other Western countries, especially those with an egalitarian social policy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100325204 A |
| Classmark | S5: SE: F:W: F:V: 3J: 76N * |
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