The contribution of the social environment to host resistance: The fourth wade hampton frost lecture

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1976, Pages 107-123

  Cassel, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; HEALTH STATUS; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; RACE; SOCIAL HYGIENE; STROKE; SUSCEPTIBILITY;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ANOMIE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RISK; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0017173596     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112281     Document Type: Article

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