U.S. Apartheid and the spread of AIDS to the suburbs: A multi-city analysis of the political economy of spatial epidemic threshold

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 333-345

  Wallace, Rodrick ^a,b   Wallace, Deborah ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PISCS Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS diffusion; catastrophe; marginalization; public policy; spatial threshold

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLICY; POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MINORITY GROUPS; POLITICS; POPULATION DENSITY; POVERTY; RACE RELATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBURBAN POPULATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RENEWAL;

AIDS; APARTHEID; DISEASE DIFFUSION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE-CITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL THRESHOLD;

USA;

EID: 0028989203     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(94)00349-X     Document Type: Article

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