Commentary: Income inequality summarises the health burden of individual relative deprivation
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Wolfson for their helpful comments and suggestions. This paper represents the views of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Statistics Canada.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.314.7096.1727