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Health and deprivation

by Peter Brereton Townsend, Peter Townsend, Alastair Beattie · 1988

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This book presents new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in the North of England. Townsend et al relate this evidence to long-term national health trends and variations in material deprivation.

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