'Just do it': An analysis of accounts of control over health amongst lower socioeconomic status groups

Critical Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-31

  Bolam, Bruce ^a   Hodgetts, Darrin ^b   Chamberlain, Kerry ^d   Murphy, Simon ^c   Gleeson, Kate ^c  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0037368562     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958159031000100170     Document Type: Article

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