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American Journal of Epidemiology 2004 160(5):503-504; doi:10.1093/aje/kwh230
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Copyright © 2004 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Health Inequalities: Lifecourse Approaches

Thomas A. Glass

Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205

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Edited by George Davey Smith

ISBN 1-86134-322-1, The Policy Press, Bristol, United Kingdom (Telephone: 44-(0)117-331-4054, Fax: 44-(0)117-331-4093, E-mail: tpp-info@bristol.ac.uk), 2003, 548 pp., $37.50 (paperback)

Increasing attention is being paid to the subject of health disparities across groups defined by socioeconomic position. As fresh observations of health disparities are added to the pile, two misleading arguments are often made: 1) that health disparities are new on the radar screen of epidemiology and public health and 2) that we do not know what mechanisms underlie these differences. Even the most casual review of the literature would quickly reveal that health disparities across socioeconomic strata have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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