Health inequalities in urban and rural Canada: Comparing inequalities in survival according to an individual and area-based deprivation index

Health and Place

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 416-420

  Pampalon, Robert ^a   Hamel, Denis ^a   Gamache, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area based measures; Canada; Deprivation; Mortality; Rural; Survival; Urban

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; MORTALITY; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SURVIVAL; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

CANADA;

EID: 73049093663     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.11.012     Document Type: Article

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