Is economic adversity always a killer? Disadvantaged areas with relatively low mortality rates

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-343

  Tunstall, Helena ^b   Mitchell, Richard ^a   Gibbs, Julia ^c   Platt, Stephen ^d   Dorling, Danny ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Blake Stevenson Limited   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ETHNICITY; FINANCIAL CRISIS; HEALTH SURVEY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; POPULATION RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN HEALTH; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947698267     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.049890     Document Type: Article

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