(DIS)respect and black mortality

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 207-214

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

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Mortality; Race Ethnicity; Social Stratification

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAUSES OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MORTALITY DETERMINANTS; NEGRO; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POLITICAL FACTORS; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POVERTY; PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; BLACKS; CAUSES OF DEATH; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; MORTALITY; MORTALITY DETERMINANTS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POLITICAL FACTORS; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS; RACE RELATIONS; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; UNITED STATES; WHITES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POVERTY; PREJUDICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031216361     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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