Income and health: What is the nature of the relationship?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 693-705

  Ecob, Russell ^a   Davey Smith, George ^b  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health and lifestyle survey; Income; Morbidity; Socio economic status; UK

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SURVEY; INCOME; MORBIDITY;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTH; HEIGHT; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFESTYLE; MALAISE; MALE; MORBIDITY; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORBIDITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0345222442     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00385-2     Document Type: Article

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