书目名称 | Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality | 编辑 | Rasmus Hoffmann | 视频video | | 概述 | Discusses a hot topic in health policy.Comprehensive literature review and discussion of the link between social status and health.Best available empirical data from Denmark and the USA.Cutting edge s | 丛书名称 | The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Social differences in health and mortality constitute a persistent finding in epidemiological, demographic, and sociological research. This topic is increasingly discussed in the political debate and is among the most urgent public health issues. However, it is still unknown if socioeconomic mortality differences increase or decrease with age...This book provides a comprehensive, thoughtful and critical discussion of all aspects involved in the relationship between socioeconomic status, health and mortality. In a well-written language, it synthesizes the sociological theory of social inequality and an empirical study of mortality differences that has been performed at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock, Germany)...The best available datasets from Denmark and the USA, as two very different countries, are used to analyze the age pattern of social mortality differences, the Danish register data covering the whole Danish population between 1980 and 2002...This study is the most comprehensive analysis of socioeconomic mortality differences in the literature, in terms of data quantity, quality, and the statistical method of event-history modeling. It makes import | 出版日期 | Book 2008 | 关键词 | Demography; Health; Mortality; Old Age; Public Health; Social Sciences; Socioeconomic Status; Unobserved He | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8692-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7954-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-8692-2Series ISSN 1877-2560 Series E-ISSN 2215-1990 | issn_series | 1877-2560 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 |
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