Racial and social class gradients in life expectancy in contemporary California

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1373-1380

  Clarke, Christina A ^a   Miller, Tim ^d   Chang, Ellen T ^a   Yin, Daixin ^b   Cockburn, Myles ^c   Gomez, Scarlett L ^a  

^a NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b California Cancer Registry   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d United Nations Economic Commission For Latin America and the Caribbean Chile   (Chile)

Author keywords

California; Life expectancy; Population based; Racial disparities; Social class disparities; Socioeconomic status (SES); USA

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE STRUCTURE; CLASS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ETHNICITY; HEALTH STATUS; LATINO PEOPLE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RACE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHNICITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; MORTALITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950955050     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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