Ethnicity and Mortality in the United States: Individual and Community Correlates

Social Forces

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 169-198

  Leclere, Felicia B ^a   Rogers, Richard G ^b   Peters, Kimberley D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031510616     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/76.1.169     Document Type: Article

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