Gender perspective on socioeconomic inequalities in health

Reducing Inequalities in Health: A European Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 315-324

  Östlin, Piroska ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

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