The geographic pattern of Belgian mortality: can socio-economic characteristics explain area differences?
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The geographic pattern of Belgian mortality: can socio-economic characteristics explain area differences?
BACKGROUND Country averages for health outcomes hide important within-country variations. This paper probes into the geographic Belgian pattern of all-cause mortality and wishes to investigate the contribution of individual and area socio-economic characteristics to geographic mortality differences in men aged 45-64 during the period 2001-2011. METHODS Data originate from a linkage between th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Public Health
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2049-3258
DOI: 10.1186/s13690-016-0135-y