Individual income, income inequality, health, and mortality: What are the relationships?

Health Services Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1 II, 2000, Pages 307-318

  Fiscella, Kevin ^a   Franks, Peter ^b  

^a Family Medicine Center Rochester   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Health status; Mortality; Social class; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCOME; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034081016     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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