Comparing the health of low income and less well educated groups in the United States and Canada

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Eng, Ken ^a   Feeny, David ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^d Health Utilities Incorporated   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CANADA; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37449010251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-5-10     Document Type: Article

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