Environmental justice and health practices: Understanding how health inequities arise at the local level

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 199-212

  Frohlich, Katherine L ^a   Abel, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Environmental justice; Health practices; Sen; Social inequity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOURDIEU; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PRACTICES; HUMAN; SEN; SOCIAL INEQUITY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BOURDIEU; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; HEALTH PRACTICES; SEN; SOCIAL INEQUITY;

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84894078606     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12126     Document Type: Article

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