Swimming upstream? Taking action on the social determinants of health inequalities

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1234-1236

  Whitehead, Margaret ^a   Popay, Jennie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fair Society, Healthy Lives (The marmot review); Global strategy; Health inequalities; Social determinants

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE;

GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE;

MARMOTA;

EID: 77956311802     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.07.004     Document Type: Note

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