Measures of health inequalities: Part 2

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 900-903

  Regidor, Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; MEASUREMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 7044231006     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2004.023036     Document Type: Review

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