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Relation of occupational class and education with mortality in Korea
  1. M Son1,
  2. B Armstrong2,
  3. J-M Choi3,
  4. T-Y Yoon3
  1. 1Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Korea
  2. 2Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
  3. 3Department of Preventive Medicine, Medical College, Kyung-Hee University, Korea
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr M Son, Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, 192–1 Hyoja2-Dong, Chunchon, Kangwon-Do, 200–701, Korea; 
 sonmia{at}kangwon.ac.kr

https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.56.10.798

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    Although the association between socioeconomic status and mortality has been studied in developed countries, much less is known about this association elsewhere. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation of occupational class and education with mortality in South Korea.

    METHODS

    We investigated mortality in the Korean working population aged 20–64 using registered death data from 1993 to 1997 obtained from the Korean National Statistics Office (NSO). Occupation and educational level, as described by next of kin, is recorded and coded routinely. Denominators were derived from a 10% stratified random sample of the 1995 census. The deaths and denominators were limited to the working population (after deleting the unemployed or housewives aged between 20 and 64 years, leaving 287 001 from 484 110 whole deaths and 16 923 772 from 27 163 775 whole population between 1993 and 1997). In this report we compare mortality in manual and non-manual workers and according to education grouped into four …

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    Footnotes

    • Funding: this study was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Labour in Korea.

    • Conflicts of interest: none.