Health inequalities in later life in a social democratic welfare state

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 871-881

  Dahl, Espen ^a   Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth ^b  

^a Institute for Applied Social Science   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Elderly population; Health inequalities; Norway; Social class; Social democracy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FATHER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0030938462     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00189-X     Document Type: Article

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