What is the lag time between income inequality and health status?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 318-319

  Blakely, Tony A ^a   Kennedy, Bruce P ^a   Glass, Roberta ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; SOCIAL CLASS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034099953     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.54.4.318     Document Type: Article

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