Ladders, pyramids and champagne: The iconography of health inequities

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1098-1104

  Krieger, N ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH POLICY; ICONOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 57349158447     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2008.079061     Document Type: Review

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