Women's relative immunity to the socio-economic health gradient: artifact or real?

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Published in Glob Health Action on May 05, 2015

Authors

Susan P Phillips1,2, Katarina Hamberg3

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
2: Umeå Centre for Gender Studies, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; phillip@queensu.ca.
3: Division of Family Medicine, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

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