Deprivation and cause specific morbidity: evidence from the Somerset and Avon survey of health.

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Published in BMJ on February 03, 1996

Authors

J Eachus1, M Williams, P Chan, G D Smith, M Grainge, J Donovan, S Frankel

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol.

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