Author/Editor		Artnik, Barbara
Title		Socialna in geografska neenakost v povezavi s prezgodnjo umrljivostjo v Sloveniji
Translated title		Social and geographical inequalities in relation to premature mortality in Slovenia
Type		članek
Source		In: Bilban M, editor. Cvahtetovi dnevi javnega zdravja 2005; 2005 jun; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani, Medicinska fakulteta,
Publication year		2005
Volume		str. 69-80
Language		slo
Abstract		A pioneering joint research has been conducted by the Department of Public Health and the Institute for Biomedical lnformatics (Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana), and the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development, to study the relationship between selected biological (age, sex), socio-economic (marital status, education, occupation, mother tongue) and geographical factors (region), and the cause of death and age at death. With the help of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovenian Institute of Public Health, a database was compiled for all deceased in Slovenia in 1992, 1995 and 1998. The diagnoses of the cause of death were linked to the data on the deceased from the 1991 Census. The paper focuses on premature mortality of adult population in Slovenia, i.e., deaths at age 25 to 64 (N=14,816). Statistical analyses demonstrate various correlations of socio-economic status with cause of death and age at death, as well as pinpoint geographical heterogeneity. As expected, males are dying younger across all socio-economic strata and from different prevailing causes than females. Differences in cause of death according to educational level were also observed, as well as differences associated to marital status. Examples of particularly pronounced mortality patterns include death due to neoplasms for married females with university degree and single males with unfinished elementary school dying due to external causes before age 35. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters)
Descriptors		PUBLIC HEALTH SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS MORTALITY CAUSE OF DEATH AGE FACTORS SEX FACTORS SLOVENIA