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This chapter compares mortality trends and possible explanatory factors in three developed affluent countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark. These countries have similar socio-economic systems, and each has a social healthcare system covering the whole population, but they have important differences in employment. All-cause mortality is used as the ‘gold standard’ against which to validate cardiovascular mortality. To explore which factors might explain the observed changes in mortality in the three countries, levels and time-related changes in mortality rates in both sexes are compared with changes in lifestyle and in socio-economic factors, primarily unemployment. |
