Variability and vulnerability at the ecological level: Implications for understanding the social determinants of health

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1768-1772

  Karpati, Adam ^a   Galea, Sandro ^a   Awerbuch, Tamara ^a   Levins, Richard ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH STATUS; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS; STROKE;

EID: 0036828187     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.92.11.1768     Document Type: Article

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