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Change in the total and independent effects of education and occupational social class on mortality: analyses of all Finnish men and women in the period 1971–2000
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- Published on: 4 June 2007
- Published on: 4 June 2007Role of the prevalence of an outcome in the size of rate differencesShow More
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Martikainen et al.[1] note that relative, and in some cases absolute, socioeconomic differences in mortality have increased in the past 15-25 years in some European countries and the US, and find that over the period 1971 to 2000 such increases also occurred in Finland. The authors, however, overlook the statistical tendency whereby the rarer an outcome, the greater the relative difference between ra...
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