What types of interventions generate inequalities? Evidence from systematic reviews

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 190-193

  Lorenc, Theo ^a   Petticrew, Mark ^a   Welch, Vivian ^b   Tugwell, Peter ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TOBACCO; WORKPLACE;

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORKPLACE;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORKPLACE;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84872162265     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2012-201257     Document Type: Article

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