Defining and explaining race effects

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 609-611

  Morgenstem, Hal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0031266158     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199711000-00002     Document Type: Article

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