Measuring the magnitude of socio-economic inequalities in health: An overview of available measures illustrated with two examples from Europe☆
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This paper is based on a more extensive document prepared by the authors for the World Health Organization [6]. Parts of this paper were presented at the NIH conference on “Measuring social inequalities in health” (Annapolis, September 28–30, 1994.
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