Mortality and distribution of income. Societies with narrower income distributions are healthier
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Mortality and distribution of income. Societies with narrower income distributions are healthier
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How much of the relation between population mortality and unequal distribution of income is a statistical artefact?BMJ. 1998 Jan 31;316(7128):382-5. doi: 10.1136/bmj.316.7128.382. BMJ. 1998. PMID: 9487182 Free PMC article. Review. No abstract available.
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