Commentary: Plugging leaks and repelling boarders - Where to next for the SS Income Inequality?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1029-1036

  Lynch, John ^a   Harper, Sam ^a   Smith, George Davey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Income inequality; Population health; Race

Indexed keywords

CAUCASIAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEGRO; NOTE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346724474     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg318     Document Type: Note

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