Before and after the black report: Four Fallacies

Poor Health: Social Inequality before and after the Black Report

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 198-220

  Macintyre, Sally ^a  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

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