Explaining Reduced Cancer Survival among the Disadvantaged

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 215-238

  Greenwald, Howard P ^a   Borgatta, Edgar F ^b   McCorkle, Ruth ^b   Polissar, Nayak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029685071     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3350247     Document Type: Article

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