The potential for reducing differences in life expectancy between educational groups in five European countries: the effects of obesity, physical inactivity and smoking

Netta E Mäki; Pekka T Martikainen; Terje Eikemo; Gwenn Menvielle; Olle Lundberg; Olof Östergren; Johan P Mackenbach; the EURO-GBD-SE consortium members

doi:10.1136/jech-2013-203501

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Social inequalities in health

The potential for reducing differences in life expectancy between educational groups in five European countries: the effects of obesity, physical inactivity and smoking

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Netta E Mäki Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Pekka T Martikainen Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Terje Eikemo Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Gwenn Menvielle Department of Social Epidemiology, INSERM, UMR_S 1136, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France Department of Social Epidemiology, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR_S 1136, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Olle Lundberg CHESS, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Sweden Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Sweden PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Olof Östergren CHESS, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Sweden PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Johan P Mackenbach Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
the EURO-GBD-SE consortium members
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Correspondence to Dr Netta E Mäki, Department of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, P.O.Box 59, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland; netta.maki{at}helsinki.fi

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Mäki NE, Martikainen PT, Eikemo T, et al

The potential for reducing differences in life expectancy between educational groups in five European countries: the effects of obesity, physical inactivity and smoking

J Epidemiol Community Health 2014;68:635-640.

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Received October 10, 2013
Revised January 30, 2014
Accepted March 7, 2014
First published April 3, 2014.

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June 03, 2014

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