Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 11 , Pages 1144-1151 , November 2008

Socio-economic status and the risk of liver cancer mortality: A prospective study in Korean men

  • S. Joshi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Institute for Health and Environment, Seoul National University, 28 Yeongun-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-460, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • Y.-M. Song

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Samsung Medical Centre, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • T.-H. Kim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Institute for Health and Environment, Seoul National University, 28 Yeongun-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-460, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • S.-I. Cho

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Institute for Health and Environment, Seoul National University, 28 Yeongun-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-460, Republic of Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Fax: +82 2 743 8240.

Received 1 May 2007 ,Revised 4 December 2007 ,Accepted 2 April 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.04.003

Public Health
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