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Socioeconomic differences in the use of ill-defined causes of death in 16 European countries
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- Kulhánová, Ivana (author)
- Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Menvielle, Gwenn (author)
- Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France
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- Bopp, Matthias (author)
- University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Borrell, Carme (author)
- Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Deboosere, Patrick (author)
- Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Eikemo, Terje A (author)
- Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands / Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Hoffmann, Rasmus (author)
- Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Leinsalu, Mall (author)
- Södertörns högskola,Sociologi,SCOHOST (Stockholm Centre for Health and Social Change),National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Martikainen, Pekka (author)
- University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Regidor, Enrique (author)
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Rodríguez-Sanz, Maica (author)
- Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Rychtaříková, Jitka (author)
- Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Wojtyniak, Bogdan (author)
- National Institute of Public Health, National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland
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- Mackenbach, Johan P (author)
- Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- 2014-12-17
- 2014
- English.
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In: BMC Public Health. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1471-2458. ; 14
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- BACKGROUND: Cause-of-death data linked to information on socioeconomic position form one of the most important sources of information about health inequalities in many countries. The proportion of deaths from ill-defined conditions is one of the indicators of the quality of cause-of-death data. We investigated educational differences in the use of ill-defined causes of death in official mortality statistics.METHODS: Using age-standardized mortality rates from 16 European countries, we calculated the proportion of all deaths in each educational group that were classified as due to "Symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions". We tested if this proportion differed across educational groups using Chi-square tests.RESULTS: The proportion of ill-defined causes of death was lower than 6.5% among men and 4.5% among women in all European countries, without any clear geographical pattern. This proportion statistically significantly differed by educational groups in several countries with in most cases a higher proportion among less than secondary educated people compared with tertiary educated people.CONCLUSIONS: We found evidence for educational differences in the distribution of ill-defined causes of death. However, the differences between educational groups were small suggesting that socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality in Europe are not likely to be biased.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
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Menvielle, Gwenn
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Bopp, Matthias
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