Increasing inequalities in health: Is it an artefact caused by the selective movement of people?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2008-2015

  Connolly, Sheelah ^a   O'Reilly, Dermot ^a   Rosato, Michael ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

England; Inequalities; Mortality; Selective migration; Socioeconomic gradients; Wales

Indexed keywords

HEALTH MONITORING; MORTALITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORTALITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SOCIAL CLASS; WALES;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34247146372     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.02.021     Document Type: Article

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