How and why do interventions that increase health overall widen inequalities within populations?

Social Inequality and Public Health

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 65-82

  White, Martin ^a   Adams, Jean ^a   Heywood, Peter ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Middlesbrough Primary Care Trust and Middlesbrough Council   (United Kingdom)

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