Do poorer people have poorer access to local resources and facilities? The distribution of local resources by area deprivation in Glasgow, Scotland
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.05.029