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. 2002 Sep;56(9):647–652. doi: 10.1136/jech.56.9.647

A glossary for health inequalities

I Kawachi 1, S Subramanian 1, N Almeida-Filho 1
PMCID: PMC1732240  PMID: 12177079

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