Metropolitan governance, residential segregation, and mortality among African Americans

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 434-438

  Hart, Kevin D ^a,c   Kunitz, Stephen J ^a   Sell, Ralph R ^b   Mukamel, Dana B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b Center for Governmental Research   (United States)

^c Box 644 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; MORTALITY; URBAN AREA; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0031969472     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.88.3.434     Document Type: Article

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