Urban desertification, public health and public order: 'Planned shrinkage', violent death, substance abuse and AIDS in the Bronx

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 1990, Pages 801-813

  Wallace, Rodrick ^a  

^a PISCS Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; homicide; migration; New York; planned shrinkage; substance abuse

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; DRUG ABUSE; FATALITY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CAUSE OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL RATE; URBAN HEALTH;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN DESERTIFICATION;

USA, NEW YORK CITY, BRONX;

EID: 0025197350     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(90)90175-R     Document Type: Article

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