Could using general health and longstanding limiting illness as a joint health outcome add to understanding in social inequalities research?

Journal of Public Health

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 208-210

  Popham, F ^a   Walker, J J ^a   Mitchell, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 35348890421     PISSN: 17413842     EISSN: 17413850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdm017     Document Type: Letter

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