Whose fault is it? People's own conceptions of the reasons for health inequalities

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 747-756

  Blaxter, Mildred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inequalities; Lay attitudes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0030891127     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00192-X     Document Type: Article

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