Socio-economic position and health: what you observe depends on how you measure it
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Socio-economic position and health: what you observe depends on how you measure it.
BACKGROUND A number of different socio-economic classifications have been used in relation to health in the United Kingdom. The aim of this study was to compare the predictive power of different socio-economic classifications in relation to a range of health measures. METHODS A postal questionnaire was sent to a random sample of adults in the West of Scotland (sampling from 1997 electoral rol...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1741-3842,1741-3850
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdg089