How cumulative risks warrant a shift in our approach to racial health disparities: The case of lead, stress, and hypertension

Health Affairs

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1895-1901

  Hicken, Margaret ^a   Gragg, Richard ^b   Hu, Howard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRESS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LEAD; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84855998635     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.1241     Document Type: Article

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