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Assessing the potential impact of increased participation in higher education on mortality: Evidence from 21 European populations
Kulhánová, Ivana; Hoffmann, Rasmus; Judge, Ken; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 117 (2014) C, pp. 142-149
Although higher education has been associated with lower mortality rates in many studies, the effect of potential … increases in higher education on mortality in European populations. We used mortality and population data according to … second, upward levelling scenario in which everyone has obtained tertiary education. The reduction of mortality in the cohort …
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Variations in the relation between education and cause-specific mortality in 19 European populations: A test of the “fundamental causes” theory of social inequalities in health
Mackenbach, Johan P.; Kulhánová, Ivana; Bopp, Matthias; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 51-62
Link and Phelan have proposed to explain the persistence of health inequalities from the fact that socioeconomic status is a “fundamental cause” which embodies an array of resources that can be used to avoid disease risks no matter what mechanisms are relevant at any given time. To test this...
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