What explains the public's health? - A call for epidemiologic theory

Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 107-109

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Zierler, Sally ^b,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Inst for Health and Social Justice   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LIFESTYLE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORY;

EID: 0030023178     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199601000-00020     Document Type: Short Survey

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