Gender differences in education effects on all-cause mortality for white and black adults in the United States

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 529-537

  Zajacova, Anna ^a   Hummer, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Black adults; Education; Gender; Marital status; Mortality; USA; White adults

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER ISSUE; MORTALITY; SECONDARY EDUCATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67849111895     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.06.028     Document Type: Article

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