Socioeconomic status and health: What we know and what we don't

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 896, Issue , 1999, Pages 3-15

  Adler, Nancy E ^a   Ostrove, Joan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0033401842     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08101.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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