Women's relative immunity to the socio-economic health gradient: Artifact or real?

Global Health Action

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Phillips, Susan P ^a,b   Hamberg, Katarina ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Deprivation index; Gender; Men; Morbidity; Mortality; Sex factors; Social capital; Socio economic status; Women

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84930678481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v8.27259     Document Type: Article

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