Incapacity or unemployment? The utility of an administrative data source as an updatable indicator of population health

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 333-352

  Norman, Paul D ^a   Bambra, Clare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Census; Incapacity benefit; LLTI; Morbidity; Mortality; Sickness absence

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; UNEMPLOYMENT;

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

EID: 34848884791     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.458     Document Type: Article

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