Biology and health inequality

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2449-2452

  Brunner, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS;

EID: 37248998811     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050267     Document Type: Review

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