Poverty, time, and place: Variation in excess mortality across selected US populations, 1980-1990

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 325-334

  Geronimus, Arline T ^a,d   Bound, John ^b   Waidmann, Timothy A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; POVERTY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032935178     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.53.6.325     Document Type: Article

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