The socioeconomic gradient in healthy life expectancy

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 305-321

  Crimmins, Eileen M ^a   Hagedorn, Aaron ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOOK; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISABILITY; EDUCATION; HEALTH; HEALTHY LIFE EXPECTANCY; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFE EXPECTANCY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RACE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 78651412816     PISSN: 01988794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1891/0198-8794.30.305     Document Type: Article

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