Will the public's health fall victim to the home foreclosure epidemic?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Bennett, Gary G ^a,b,c,d   Scharoun Lee, Melissa ^b   Tucker Seeley, Reginald ^c,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; FALLING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOME ACCIDENT; INCOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW;

HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650260786     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000087     Document Type: Review

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