Ethnicity, socio-economic status and health research: Insights from and implications of Charles Tilly's theory of durable inequality

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 671-675

  Lorant, Vincent ^a   Bhopal, Raj S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; EXPLOITATION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISK; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CLASS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL CLASS;

EUROPE;

EID: 79960215113     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2010.116418     Document Type: Article

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