Grading and reporting health and health disparities

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Booske, Bridget C ^a   Rohan, Angela M K ^b   Kindig, David A ^a   Remington, Patrick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RACE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949315108     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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