Calculating health and social change: An essay on Jerry Morris and Late-modernist epidemiology

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1180-1184

  Porter, Dorothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPISTEMOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; INSURANCE; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NOTE; OBESITY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL MEDICINE; SOCIAL STATUS; THEORETICAL STUDY; WELLBEING;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 36949009059     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dym229     Document Type: Note

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