The SES and health gradient: A brief review of the literature

The Biological Consequences of Socioeconomic Inequalities

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-37

  Evans, William ^a   Wolfe, Barbara ^b   Adler, Nancy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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