Mortality and distribution of income

BMJ

Volumn 316, Issue 7144, 1998, Pages 1611-

  Senn, Stephen ^a   Wilkinson, Richard G ^b   Sutton, Graham C ^c   Gravelle, Hugh ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c NUFFIELD INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; MORTALITY; NOTE; SOCIOECONOMICS; LETTER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIETY;

HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0032560342     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.316.7144.1611a     Document Type: Letter

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