Austere or not? UK coalition government budgets and health inequalities.
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Aaron Reeves, Sanjay Basu, Martin McKee, Michael Marmot and David Stuckler Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 1UQ, UK Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA Department of Public Health and Policy, LSHTM, London, WC1H 9SH, UK Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK Corresponding author: Aaron Reeves. Email: [email protected]
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
دوره 106 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013