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| Intelligence, education, and mortality | | Author(s) | G David Batty, Mika Kivimäki, Ian J Deary |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 340, no 7754, 8 May 2010 |
| Pages | pp 989-990 |
| Source | www.bmj.com doi: 10.1136/bmj.c563 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Educational status [elderly] ; Death ; Poverty ; Measurement ; Correlation. |
| Annotation | Intelligence, education and mortality are linked in several ways; so strategies to reduce inequalities should be broadly based. In 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) took a lead on this with the launch of the Global Commission on Social Determinants of Health. This editorial notes two studies in the British Medical Journal. Strand and colleagues in Norway assessed the relation between educational equalities and mortality 1960 to 2000. Lager and colleagues investigated the association between early IQ, educational attainment and mortality in Sweden; they found a higher risk of mortality in older women with higher rather than lower intelligence in childhood. A 2004 study by Linda Gottfredson has proposed that intelligence might be "the epidemiologists' elusive 'fundamental cause' of social class inequalities in health". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100511202 A |
| Classmark | DA: F:V: CW: W6: 3R: 49 * |
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