The socioeconomic determinants of cancer

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Merletti, Franco ^a   Galassi, Claudia ^a   Spadea, Teresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b ASL TO3 Piedmont Region   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; SURVIVAL;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; MORTALITY; REVIEW;

ITALY;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79953832335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-10-S1-S7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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