Educational Level and Mortality in a 32-Year Follow-up Study of 18-Year-Old Men in the Netherlands

Doornbos G (Institute of Social Medicine, University of Leiden, The Netherlands) and Kromhout D. Educational level and mortality in a 32-year follow-up study of 18-year-old men in the Netherlands. International Journal of Epidemiology 1990, 19 : 374–379. Social inequities and their relation to health form a topic of growing concern in the Netherlands. The present investigation on educational level and mortality was carried out in a cohort of men born in 1932, examined for military service in 1950/1951 and for whom vital statistics could be obtained. In the group of 78 505 men, 3456 deaths occu... Mehr ...