Illness behaviour and the measurement of class differentials in morbidity

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-92

  Blane, D ^a,d   Power, C ^b   Bartley, M ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Illness behaviour; Proportion free of serious disease; Social class; Standardized instrumentS; Summary morbidity measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039568233     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2983470     Document Type: Article

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