Socioeconomic Disparities and Health: Impacts and Pathways
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Socioeconomic Disparities and Health: Impacts and Pathways
Growing socioeconomic disparity is a global concern, as it could affect population health. The author and colleagues have investigated the health impacts of socioeconomic disparities as well as the pathways that underlie those disparities. Our meta-analysis found that a large population has risks of mortality and poor self-rated health that are attributable to income inequality. The study resul...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1349-9092,0917-5040
DOI: 10.2188/jea.je20110116