Educational inequalities in mortality over four decades in Norway: prospective study of middle aged men and women followed for cause specific mortality, 1960-2000.

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Published in BMJ on February 23, 2010

Authors

Bjørn Heine Strand1, Else-Karin Grøholt, Olöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Tony Blakely, Sidsel Graff-Iversen, Øyvind Naess

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, PO Box 4404 Nydalen, NO-0403 Oslo, Norway. bjorn.heine.strand@fhi.no

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