Cause-specific Mortality among Older African-Americans: Correlates and Consequences of Age Misreporting

Social Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 227-246

  Hussey, Jon M ^a   Elo, Irma T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE REPORTING; AGE SPECIFIC DEATH RATE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAUSES OF DEATH; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA QUALITY; DEATH RECORDS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEGRO; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VITAL STATISTICS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGE REPORTING; AGE SPECIFIC DEATH RATE; AMERICAS; BLACKS; CAUSES OF DEATH; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA QUALITY; DATA REPORTING; DEATH RATE; DEATH RECORDS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; UNITED STATES; VITAL STATISTICS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031216065     PISSN: 0037766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1997.9988950     Document Type: Article

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