Working Class Matters: Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Smoking in NHIS 2000

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 269-278

  Barbeau, Elizabeth M ^a   Krieger, Nancy ^b   Soobader, Mah Jabeen ^b  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0842348898     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.94.2.269     Document Type: Article

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