Income inequality and homicide rates in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 845-850

  Szwarcwald, Célia Landmann ^a   Bastos, Francisco Inácio ^a   Viacava, Francisco ^a   Tavares De Andrade, Carla Lourenço ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOMICIDE; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; POLICY; POPULATION DENSITY; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 0033017476     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.89.6.845     Document Type: Article

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