Income inequality and health: The role of population size, inequality threshold, period effects and lag effects

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Kondo, Naoki ^a   van Dam, Rob M ^b   Sembajwe, Grace ^c   Subramanian, S V ^c   Kawachi, Ichiro ^c   Yamagata, Zentaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RISK; HETEROGENEITY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MORTALITY; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD;

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84864012203     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2011-200321     Document Type: Article

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