Towards a geography of health inequalities in Ireland

Irish Geography

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 37-58

  Rigby, Janette E ^a   Boyle, Mark G ^a   Brunsdon, Christopher ^a   Charlton, Martin ^a   Dorling, Danny ^b   French, Walter ^c   Noone, Simon ^a   Pringle, Dennis ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Compass ^*  (Ireland)

Author keywords

Health inequalities; Health policy; Intermediate Areas; Ireland; Mapping; Mortality; Neoliberalism; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; EQUITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH POLICY; MAPPING; MODELING; MORTALITY; NEOLIBERALISM; OECD; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT;

DUBLIN [(CTY) LEINSTER]; IRELAND; LEINSTER;

EID: 85050489590     PISSN: 00750778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2014/igj.v50i1.1263     Document Type: Article

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