Women and health checks: Making sense of differential uptake

Critical Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 233-250

  Abbott, Pamela ^a   McDonald, Marion ^a   Sapsford, Roger ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85033341733     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581599908402935     Document Type: Article

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