TITLE

Deprived of health

AUTHOR(S)
Bartley, Mel
PUB. DATE
February 1995
SOURCE
BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);2/25/95, Vol. 310 Issue 6978, p539
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Comments on the `Panorama' television program's portrayal of health inequalities in Great Britain following the Rowntree report on growing social inequality. Ratio of asthmatic children; Interviews with the poor and the unemployed; Need for government address for social problems.
ACCESSION #
9510256935

Tags: HEALTH -- Social aspects

 

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