Narrowing social inequalities in health? Analysis of trends in mortality among babies of lone mothers

British Medical Journal

Volumn 318, Issue 7188, 1999, Pages 908-912

  Whitehead, Margaret ^a,c   Drever, Frances ^b  

^a KING S FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS   (United Kingdom)

^c Ash Magna   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FATHER; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIAL CLASS; INFANT; NEWBORN;

ENGLAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; REGISTRIES; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SURVIVAL RATE; WALES;

EID: 0033519025     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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