Mujahid et al. respond to "beyond the metrics for measuring neighborhood effects"

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 165, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 872-873

  Diez Roux, Ana V ^a,b   Mujahid, Mahasin S ^a   Morenoff, Jeffrey D ^a   Raghunathan, Trivellore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ECOLOGY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; NOTE; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 34047202215     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwm039     Document Type: Note

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