Part III summary: What is the role of the social environment in understanding inequalities in health?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 896, Issue , 1999, Pages 116-119

  Kaplan, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH STATUS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW;

HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033252845     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08109.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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