Increasing social mobility: An effective policy to reduce health inequalities

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 469-481

  Bartley, Mel ^a   Plewis, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender; Health inequality; Logistic regression; Social class; Social mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147224041     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00464.x     Document Type: Article

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