Inequality: an underacknowledged source of mental illness and distress.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

• Publication date

  2010-12-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1192/bjp.bp.109.072066PMID 21119145
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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