Extreme health inequalities: Mortality in homeless people

The Lancet

Volumn 377, Issue 9784, 2011, Pages 2156-2157

  Geddes, John R ^a   Fazel, Seena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; DENMARK; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 79959709350     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60885-4     Document Type: Note

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