Education and occupational social class: which is the more important indicator of mortality risk?

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on March 01, 1998

Authors

G Davey Smith1, C Hart, D Hole, P MacKinnon, C Gillis, G Watt, D Blane, V Hawthorne

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1: Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol.

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