‘Known to be unhealthy’: Exploring how social epidemiological research constructs the category of low socioeconomic status
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114263
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Problematizing low SES; Social epidemiology; Health inequality; Categorisation; Science and policy;All these keywords.
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