Genetics and health inequalities: Hypotheses and controversies

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 268-273

  Mackenbach, Johan P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR;

GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATUS; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEALTH CARE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; INCOME; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESTYLE; MENTAL STRESS; OCCUPATION; PERSONALITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; AGED; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; RESEARCH ETHICS;

AGED; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 15544363386     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2004.026807     Document Type: Review

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