Separate and unequal: Residential segregation and black health disparities

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 179-184

  Landrine, Hope ^a   Corral, Irma ^b  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Health disparities; Neighborhoods; Segregation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; AFRICAN AMERICAN; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MINORITY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67651233713     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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