Separate but Lethal: The Effects of Economic Segregation on Mortality in Metropolitan America

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 341-373

  Waitzman, Norman J ^a   Smith, Ken R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NONE

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INEQUALITIES; MORTALITY; MORTALITY DETERMINANTS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POVERTY; SEGREGATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HEALTH; INEQUALITIES; MORTALITY; MORTALITY DETERMINANTS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEGREGATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INCOME; MORTALITY; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0031986973     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00095     Document Type: Article

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