Exploring health disparities in integrated communities: Overview of the EHDIC study

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-21

  LaVeist, Thomas ^a   Thorpe Jr , Roland ^a   Bowen Reid, Terra ^b   Jackson, John ^a   Gary, Tiffany ^a   Gaskin, Darrell ^a   Browne, Dorothy ^b  

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

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Confounding; Health disparities; Integration; Race; Segregation; Socioeconomic status; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MODEL; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALTIMORE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POVERTY AREAS; PREJUDICE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 38349145448     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-007-9226-y     Document Type: Article

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