Black-white health disparities in the United States and Chicago: A 15-year progress analysis

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 349-356

  Orsi, Jennifer M ^a,b   Margellos Anast, Helen ^a   Whitman, Steven ^a  

^a Sinai Urban Health Institute   (United States)

^b Sinai Urban Health Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHICAGO; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; MORTALITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75649151711     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.165407     Document Type: Article

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