Are the Poor Dying Younger in Malaysia? An Examination of the Socioeconomic Gradient in Mortality.
Socioeconomic inequalities in health represent unfairness in the health distribution of a population. Efforts to produce information on mortality distributions in many low and middle income countries (LMICs) are mostly hampered by lack of data disaggregated by socioeconomic groups. In this paper we...
Main Authors: | Jeevitha Mariapun, Noran N Hairi, Chiu-Wan Ng |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4928844?pdf=render |
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