Austerity measures hit the sickest hardest

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue 7915, 2013, Pages

  Taylor Robinson, David ^a   Gosling, Rachael ^b   Harrison, Dominic ^c   Khan, Mohammed ^c   Barr, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^c BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN BOROUGH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; LETTER; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SMOKING;

EID: 84880077749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f4208     Document Type: Letter

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