Area Deprivation and Widening Inequalities in US Mortality, 1969-1998

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1137-1143

  Singh, Gopal K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CENSUSES; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 0042744751     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.7.1137     Document Type: Article

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