Socioeconomic characteristics of residential areas and risk of death: is variation in spatial units for analysis a source of heterogeneity in observed associations?

OBJECTIVES: Evidence on the association between the adverse socioeconomic characteristics of residential area and mortality is mixed. We examined whether the choice of spatial unit is critical in detecting this association. DESIGN: Register-linkage study. SETTING: Data were from the Finnish Public S...

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Autores principales: Halonen, Jaana I, Vahtera, Jussi, Oksanen, Tuula, Pentti, Jaana, Virtanen, Marianna, Jokela, Markus, Diez-Roux, Ana V, Kivimäki, Mika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2013
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Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23558735
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002474

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23558735
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002474

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