Macro-to-Micro Links in the Relation between Income Inequality and Mortality

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 315-339

  Daly, Mary C ^b   Duncan, Greg J ^a   Kaplan, George A ^b   Lynch, John W ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INEQUALITIES; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INEQUALITIES; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; MORTALITY; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031987215     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00094     Document Type: Article

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