Primary care, race, and mortality in US states

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-75

  Shi, Leiyu ^a   Macinko, James ^b   Starfield, Barbara ^a   Politzer, Robert ^c   Xu, Jiahong ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Mortality; Primary care resources; USA

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RACE;

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EXAMINATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INCOME; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RACE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 17444424579     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.11.056     Document Type: Article

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