Minority group status and healthful aging: Social structure still matters

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1152-1159

  Angel, Jacqueline L ^a   Angel, Ronald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MINORITY GROUP; POLITICS; POVERTY; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGING; CULTURE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; POLITICS; POVERTY; PREJUDICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 33745656140     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.085530     Document Type: Review

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