Social Construction of Health Inequities: A Critical Ethnography on Day Labourers in Japan

Although evidence of health inequities abound, why people in lower socio-economic classes have poorer health has not been sufficiently explored. The purpose of this study is to examine day labourers’ pathways to health inequities in a segregated, urban district in Japan. Critical ethnography was emp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kawabata, Makie
Other Authors: Gastaldo, Denise
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/17780