United States Black:White infant mortality disparities are not inevitable: Identification of community resilience independent of socioeconomic status

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 1 SUPPL.1, 2010, Pages

  Fry Johnson, Yvonne W ^a   Levine, Robert ^b   Rowley, Diane ^c   Agboto, Vincent ^b   Rust, George ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant mortality; Racial disparity; Resilience; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955500903     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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