Income, income inequality and health: What can we learn from aggregate data?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 577-589

  Gravelle, Hugh ^a   Wildman, John ^b   Sutton, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health; Income; Income inequality; Relative income

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; POVERTY;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCOME; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; POPULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036173385     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00053-3     Document Type: Article

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