Changing to the 2000 standard million: Are declining racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in health real progress or statistical illusion?

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1209-1213

  Krieger, N ^a   Williams, D R ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034901781     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.91.8.1209     Document Type: Article

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