Measuring global health inequity

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Reidpath, Daniel D ^a   Allotey, Pascale ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL STATUS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 37349079008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-6-16     Document Type: Article

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