Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Monitoring Socioeconomic Gradients in Health: Comparison of Area-Based Socioeconomic Measures - The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1655-1671

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Chen, Jarvis T ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a   Rehkopf, David H ^a   Subramanian, S V ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CAUCASIAN; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; GENDER; HEALTH CARE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; LEAD POISONING; MONITORING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INFANT; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RHODE ISLAND; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0642315781     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.10.1655     Document Type: Article

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