Does gender modify associations between self rated health and the social and economic characteristics of local environments?

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on June 01, 2006

Authors

Anne M Kavanagh1, Rebecca Bentley, Gavin Turrell, Dorothy H Broom, S V Subramanian

Author Affiliations

1: Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. a.kavanagh@unimelb.edu.au

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