Making use of official statistics in research on gender and health status: Recent British data

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-127

  Dunnell, Karen ^a   Fitzpatrick, Justine ^a   Bunting, Julia ^a  

^a 1 Drummond Gate   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender; Health; Official statistics

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DENTAL HEALTH SURVEYS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032918477     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00294-9     Document Type: Article

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