The Unequal World of Health Data
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- 24 November 2009
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 6 (11) , e1000155
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000155
Abstract
Peter Byass argues that less data are available on the health of the poor than of the rich, and discusses several alternative strategies to improve the representativeness of health data.Keywords
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