Health underachievement and overachievement in English local authorities

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 686-693

  Doran, Tim ^a   Drever, Frances ^b   Whitehead, Margaret ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; AUTHORITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746341168     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.041889     Document Type: Article

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