Life expectancy, economic inequality, homicide, and reproductive timing in Chicago neighbourhoods

British Medical Journal

Volumn 314, Issue 7089, 1997, Pages 1271-1274

  Wilson, Margo ^a   Daly, Martin ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030986152     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.314.7089.1271     Document Type: Short Survey

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