Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific premature mortality in Belgium, 1998–2019
Martina Otavova,
Bruno Masquelier,
Christel Faes
et al.
Abstract:Background
Higher levels of socioeconomic deprivation have been consistently associated with increased risk of premature mortality, but a detailed analysis by causes of death is lacking in Belgium. We aim to investigate the association between area deprivation and all-cause and cause-specific premature mortality in Belgium over the period 1998–2019.
Methods
We used the 2001 and 2011 Belgian Indices of Multiple Deprivation to assign statistical sect… Show more
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