Neighborhood Social Context and Racial Differences in Women's Heart Disease Mortality

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 91-107

  LeClere, Felicia B ^a   Rogers, Richard G ^b   Peters, Kimberley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CAUCASIAN; CAUSES OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; DISEASES; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD--WOMEN; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HEART DISEASES--WOMEN; HOUSEHOLDS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; BIOLOGY; CAUSES OF DEATH; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; DISEASES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD--WOMEN; HEART DISEASES--WOMEN; HOUSEHOLDS; MORTALITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0032084266     PISSN: 00221465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2676393     Document Type: Article

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