Health inequalities: Trends, progress, and policy

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 33, Issue , 2012, Pages 7-40

  Bleich, Sara N ^a   Jarlenski, Marian P ^a   Bell, Caryn N ^a   Laveist, Thomas A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Health inequality; Raceethnicity; SES; Trends

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SEX; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861411741     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031811-124658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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