The role of clinical epidemiology in health equity: Let's take action!

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 751-752

  Tugwell, P ^a   Robinson, V ^a   Kristjansson, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 22044444706     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.03.001     Document Type: Note

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