Neighborhood socioeconomic status and influenza hospitalizations among children: New Haven County, Connecticut, 2003-2010

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1785-1789

  Yousey Hindes, Kimberly M ^a   Hadler, James L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFLUENZA; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONNECTICUT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 80052015799     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300224     Document Type: Article

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