Income Inequality and Mortality: Importance to Health of Individual Income, Psychosocial Environment, or Material Conditions

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2000 Apr 28

PMID 10784551

Citations 334

Authors

J W Lynch

G D Smith

G A Kaplan

J S House

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