The social patterning of child mortality: The importance of social class, gender, family structure, immigrant status and population density

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 415-435

  Östberg, Viveca ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Children; Family structure; Gender; Immigrant status; Mortality; Population density; Social class

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040570995     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.1997.tb00411.x     Document Type: Article

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