Socio-economic position and health: What you observe depends on how you measure it

Journal of Public Health Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 288-294

  Macintyre, Sally ^a   McKay, Laura ^a   Der, Geoff ^a   Hiscock, Rosemary ^b  

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

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gender; Inequalities in health; Self reported health; Social classifications

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSING; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0842269193     PISSN: 09574832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdg089     Document Type: Article

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