Years off your life? the effects of homicide on life expectancy by neighborhood and race/ethnicity in Los Angeles County

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 670-676

  Redelings, Matthew ^a   Lieb, Loren ^a   Sorvillo, Frank ^a  

^a Los Angeles County Department of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Homicide; Life expectancy; Urban health

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; RACE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOS ANGELES; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77954661449     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-010-9470-4     Document Type: Article

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