Exceptions to the rule: Healthy deprived areas and unhealthy wealthy areas

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1326-1342

  van Hooijdonk, Carolien ^a,b   Droomers, Mariël ^a   van Loon, Jeanne A M ^a   van der Lucht, Fons ^a   Kunst, Anton E ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Geographical health inequalities; Hospitalisation; Mortality; Residential segregation; The Netherlands; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ELDERLY POPULATION; ETHNICITY; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; URBANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; POPULATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; POSTAL SERVICE; POVERTY AREAS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33847109751     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.10.041     Document Type: Article

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