Social policies and change in education-related disparities in mortality in Japan, 2000–2010

Persistent socioeconomic disparity in mortality is a widely observed phenomenon despite improvements in the economic standard of living and the prevailing universal healthcare coverage policy. In this study, we selected Japan as a case in which public universal coverage has maintained horizontal equ...

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Main Authors: Megumi Kasajima, Hideki Hashimoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827320303293