Socioeconomic inequality in domains of health: Results from the World Health Surveys

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hosseinpoor, Ahmad Reza ^a   Stewart Williams, Jennifer Anne ^b   Itani, Lynn ^c   Chatterji, Somnath ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c Research   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INCOME; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CARE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CARE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84858327366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-198     Document Type: Review

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