Social capital, income inequality, and mortality

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1491-1498

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

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 0030819033     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.87.9.1491     Document Type: Article

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