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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on September 14, 2005
The European Journal of Public Health 2005 15(5):441; doi:10.1093/eurpub/cki156
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorials

Ignoring social factors in clinical decision rules: a contribution to health inequalities?

Thierry Lang*

* Correspondence: Thierry Lang, Laboratoire d'Epidemiologie et de Santé Publique, INSERM U558, IFR 126 Santé Société, Faculté de Médecine, 37 allées Jules Guesde, 31073 Toulouse Cedex, France, tel: +33 5 61 14 59 35, fax: +33 5 62 26 42 40, e-mail: lang@cict.fr

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Much work has been published on health inequalities and the health-care system. Ignoring the fact that it is risky to summarize a literature review in a single sentence, I would suggest that most publications on this subject have focused on the conditions of primary access to care. Far fewer papers have investigated the next step: what happens when patients have had a first contact with the health-care system. While data are more sparse, they . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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