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Gender Inequalities in Health: A Swedish Perspective

Edited by Piroska Ostlin

Maria Danielsson

Finn Diderichsen

Annika Harenstam

Gudrun Lindberg

Translated by Dorothy Duncan

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$15.00 • £12.95 • €13.50

ISBN 9780674005280

Publication Date: 10/01/2001

336 pages

6 x 9 inches

44 line illustrations, 19 tables

World English

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Piroska Ostlin is a medical sociologist based at the Karolinska Institute as a Senior Researcher. She is also a Research Fellow of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

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