Metropolitan area income inequality and self-rated health - A multi-level study

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 65-77

  Blakely, Tony A ^a,b   Lochner, Kimberly ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Confounding factors; Health status; Income inequality; Multi level studies; Self rated health; Socio economic factors

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; METROPOLITAN AREA; SELF ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CENSUSES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL HEALTH; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0036131501     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00007-7     Document Type: Article

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