Metropolitan fragmentation and health disparities: Is there a link?

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 187-207

  Hutson, Malo André ^a   Kaplan, George A ^b   Ranjit, Nalini ^c   Mujahid, Mahasin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

health disparities; Metropolitan fragmentation; mortality; planning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POVERTY; PREJUDICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84859010480     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: 14680009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2011.00659.x     Document Type: Article

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