Cause of death affects racial classification on death certificates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Noymer, Andrew ^a,b   Penner, Andrew M ^a   Saperstein, Aliya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNOLOGY; FIBROSIS; RACE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VITAL STATISTICS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FIBROSIS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; PREJUDICE; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 79551540167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015812     Document Type: Article

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