Relation between income inequality and mortality: Empirical demonstration

British Medical Journal

Volumn 319, Issue 7215, 1999, Pages 953-955

  Wolfson, Michael ^a   Kaplan, George ^b   Lynch, John ^b   Ross, Nancy ^d   Backlund, Eric ^c  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INEQUALITIES; MORTALITY--STATISTICS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; HUMANS; INCOME; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033539380     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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