Ethnic and class differences in health in relation to British South Asians: using the new National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification.
The paper examines the use of the new measure of social class in the UK, the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) and other socio-economic variables in explaining differences in health between British South Asians and the majority White population. There are a number of hypothe...
| Publicado en: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 52; no. 8; pp. 1285 - 1297 |
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Elsevier Science
April 2001
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