Community health survey in an urban African-American neighborhood: Distribution and correlates of elevated blood pressure

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 87-95

  Bone, Lee R ^a   Hill, Martha N ^b   Stallings, Rebecca ^b   Gelber, Allan C ^b   Barker, Anne ^b   Baylor, Ingrid ^b   Harris, Elder C ^b   Zeger, Scott L ^b   Felix Aaron, Kaytura L ^b   Clark, Jeanne M ^b   Levine, David M ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adults; African American; Community; Community Health Worker; Hypertension; Survey; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BALTIMORE; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0034544237     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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