Health and rapid economic change in the late twentieth century

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 809-819

  Hertzman, Clyde ^a   Siddiqi, Arjumand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; Civil society; Health status; Income distribution; Life expectancy; Tiger Economies

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; HEALTH IMPACT; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EASTERN EUROPE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0034666819     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00062-9     Document Type: Article

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