Economic status and the Indigenous/non-Indigenous health gap

Economics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 604-606

  Booth, Alison L ^a,b   Carroll, Nick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c and Workplace Relations   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health inequalities; Indigenous health; Self assessed health

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849104819     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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