Are the Poor Dying Younger in Malaysia? An Examination of the Socioeconomic Gradient in Mortality.

Socioeconomic inequalities in health represent unfairness in the health distribution of a population. Efforts to produce information on mortality distributions in many low and middle income countries (LMICs) are mostly hampered by lack of data disaggregated by socioeconomic groups. In this paper we...

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Main Authors: Jeevitha Mariapun, Noran N Hairi, Chiu-Wan Ng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4928844?pdf=render