Social Capital and Human Mortality: Explaining the Rural Paradox with County-Level Mortality Data

Rural Sociology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 347-374

  Yang, Tse Chuan ^a   Jensen, Leif ^a   Haran, Murali ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; MORTALITY; RACE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052530999     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.2011.00055.x     Document Type: Article

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