Contribution of major diseases to disparities in mortality

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 1585-1592

  Wong, Mitchell D ^a,c   Shapiro, Martin F ^a,b   John Boscardin, W ^c   Ettner, Susan L ^a,b  

^a Health Services Research   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INJURY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037079005     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsa012979     Document Type: Review

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