How goes the neighbourhood? Rethinking neighbourhoods and health research in social epidemiology

Rethinking Social Epidemiology: Towards a Science of Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 137-156

  Shankardass, Ketan ^a   Dunn, James R ^b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84931303321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2138-8_7     Document Type: Chapter

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