Using relative and absolute measures for monitoring health inequalities: experiences from cross-national analyses on maternal and child health
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- 29 October 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in International Journal for Equity in Health
- Vol. 6 (1), 15-9
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-6-15
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