Are local health department expenditures related to racial disparities in mortality?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2057-2065

  Grembowski, David ^a   Bekemeier, Betty ^a   Conrad, Douglas ^a   Kreuter, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Health inequalities; Local health departments; Mortality disparities; Public health expenditures; Public health systems research; Race and ethnicity; USA

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; ETHNICITY; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; LATINO PEOPLE; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACIAL DISPARITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MALE; MORTALITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649450370     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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