Assessment of structured socioeconomic effects on health

Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 157-167

  Kaufman, Jay S ^a,b   Kaufman, Sol ^c  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Confounding; Epidemiologic methods; Factors (epidemiology); Social class; Social conditions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH; HUMANS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0035109362     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-200103000-00006     Document Type: Article

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