Invited commentary: Residential segregation and health - The complexity of modeling separate social contexts

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 168, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1255-1258

  Acevedo Garcia, Dolores ^a   Osypuk, Theresa L ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Infant mortality; Residence characteristics

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT MORTALITY; METHODOLOGY; NEGRO; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; RACISM; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57149119263     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn290     Document Type: Note

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