Mortality among Hispanics in metropolitan Chicago: An examination based on vital statistics data

Journal of Chronic Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1987, Pages 445-451

  Shai, Donna ^a   Rosenwaike, Ira ^b  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicago; Hispanics; Mexican Americans; Migrants; Mortality; Poverty; Puerto Ricans

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MIGRANT; MORTALITY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VITAL STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHICAGO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY DISEASE; CULTURE; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; POVERTY; PUERTO RICO; SOCIAL CLASS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 0023150634     PISSN: 00219681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9681(87)90178-0     Document Type: Article

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