Segregation, discrimination and mortality in U.S. blacks

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 99-108

  Polednak, Anthony P ^a  

^a CDC   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Mortality; Segregation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BIOLOGY; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MORTALITY; MORTALITY DETERMINANTS; NEGRO; NEWBORN; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEGREGATION; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; BIOLOGY; BLACKS; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; MORTALITY; MORTALITY DETERMINANTS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTORS; SEGREGATION; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WHITES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MORTALITY; PREJUDICE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0030476571     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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