Commentary: Personality and health inequality: inconclusive evidence for an indirect hypothesis.

نویسنده

  • John Gallacher
چکیده

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • International journal of epidemiology

دوره 37 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008