Income Inequality, Illiteracy Rate, and Life Expectancy in Brazil

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1294-1296

  Messias, Erick ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; READING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGED; BRAZIL; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0041382753     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.8.1294     Document Type: Article

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