Environmental inequality and circulatory disease mortality gradients

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 481-487

  Finkelstein, Murray M ^a,b   Jerrett, Michael ^b   Sears, Malcolm R ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; URBAN POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; ISCHEMIA; LUNG FUNCTION; MORTALITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STROKE; TRAFFIC;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; POVERTY AREAS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN HEALTH; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

CANADA; HAMILTON [ONTARIO]; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20344379452     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2004.026203     Document Type: Article

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