Socioeconomic status, health inequalities and non-communicable diseases: a systematic review.
Aim: A comprehensive approach to health highlights its close relationship with the social and economic conditions, physical environment and individual lifestyles. However, this relationship is not exempt from methodological problems that may bias the establishment of direct effects between the varia...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 1 - 15 |
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