Welfare Receipt Trajectories of African-American Women Followed for 30 Years

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-94

  Juon, Hee Soon ^a   Green, Kerry M ^b   Fothergill, Kate E ^a   Kasper, Judith D ^a   Thorpe, Roland J ^a   Ensminger, Margaret E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

African American women; Psychological distress; Semiparametric growth mixture model; Social integration; Social roles; Welfare trajectory

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHICAGO; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POVERTY; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77249121541     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-009-9413-0     Document Type: Article

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