Identifying the impact of social determinants of health on disease rates using correlation analysis of area-based summary information

Public Health Reports

Volumn 126, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages 70-80

  Song, Ruiguang ^a   Irene Hall, H ^a   Harrison, Kathleen McDavid ^a   Sharpe, Tanya Telfair ^a   Lin, Lillian S ^a   Dean, Hazel D ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MORBIDITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; AGE; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH DISPARITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGE FACTORS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80655148263     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00333549111260s312     Document Type: Article

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