Tackling global health inequalities: Closing the health gap in a generation

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Pearce, Jamie ^a   Dorling, Danny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 65949098160     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a41319     Document Type: Note

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