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Health and happiness in a materially deprived, ethnically mixed locality
  1. Paul R Ward,
  2. Anna Coates
  1. University of Sheffield, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr P R Ward
 University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK; p.r.ward{at}sheffield.ac.uk

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