Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8692-2
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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).
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Demography, Population Economics, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Epidemiology, Sociology, general, Geriatrics, Gerontology, Demography, Health, Mortality, Old Age, Public Health, Social Sciences, Socioeconomic Status, Unobserved Heterogeneity, Age
