Are health inequalities evident at all ages? An ecological study of English mortality records

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-45

  Dibben, Chris ^a   Popham, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876562193     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/cks019     Document Type: Article

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