United States coronary mortality trends and community services associated with occupational structure, among blacks and whites, 1984-1998

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2349-2361

  Armstrong, Donna L ^a   Strogatz, David ^a   Wang, Ruby ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Community health; Coronary heart disease; Social class; US counties

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATION; RACIAL DISPARITY; RISK FACTOR;

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1642544747     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.08.030     Document Type: Article

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