An epidemiology of neighborhood poverty: Causal factors of infant mortality among blacks and whites in the metropolitan United States

Professional Geographer

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-53

  Strait, John B ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Geography Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant mortality; Neighborhood poverty; Racial segregation

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT MORTALITY; METROPOLITAN AREA; RACIAL DISPARITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646583368     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9272.2006.00510.x     Document Type: Article

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