Education level inequalities and transportation injury mortality in the middle aged and elderly in European settings.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the differential distribution of transportation injury mortality by educational level in nine European settings, among people older than 30 years, during the 1990s.

Methods

Deaths of men and women older than 30 years from transportation injuries were studied. Rate differences and rate ratios (RR) between high and low educational level rates were obtained.

Results

Among men, those of low educational level had higher death rates in all settings, a pattern that was maintained in the different settings; no inequalities were found among women. Among men, in all the settings, the RR was higher in the 30-49 age group (RR 1.46, 95% CI 1.32 to 1.61) than in the age groups 50-69 and > or = 70 years, a pattern that was maintained in the different settings. For

SUBMITTER: Borrell C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1730212 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature