Income distribution and mortality: Cross sectional ecological study of the Robin Hood index in the United States

British Medical Journal

Volumn 312, Issue 7037, 1996, Pages 1004-1007

  Kennedy, Bruce P ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a   Prothrow Stith, Deborah ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH; HOMICIDE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT MORTALITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; POLICY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029929618     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7037.1004     Document Type: Article

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