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Infection, medical care and inequalities
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Studies of socioeconomic differentials in health have been a major feature of the International Journal of Epidemiology over the past few years.117 One of the striking features of social inequalities is that as diseases increase in importance within populations, the gradients of increasing risk with less favourable social circumstances tend to become more marked.18 While this