Monitoring trends in socioeconomic health inequalities: It matters how you measure

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Khang, Young Ho ^a   Yun, Sung Cheol ^a   Lynch, John W ^b  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INEQUALITY; HUMAN; KOREA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MONITORING; OCCUPATION; PREVALENCE; RISK; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREND STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 40749100270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-66     Document Type: Article

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