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Using relative and absolute measures for monitoring health inequalities: experiences from cross-national analyses on maternal and child health
BACKGROUND: As reducing socio-economic inequalities in health is an important public health objective, monitoring of these inequalities is an important public health task. The specific inequality measure used can influence the conclusions drawn, and there is no consensus on which measure is most mea...
Autores principales: | Houweling, Tanja AJ, Kunst, Anton E, Huisman, Martijn, Mackenbach, Johan P |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2007
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2173893/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17967166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-6-15 |
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