Not just smoking and high-tech medicine: Socioeconomic inequities in U.S. mortality rates, overall and by race/ethnicity, 1960-2006

International Journal of Health Services

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 293-322

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Chen, Jarvis T ^b   Kosheleva, Anna ^b   Waterman, Pamela D ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG; ETHNICITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MORTALITY; RACISM; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STANDARD (REGULATION);

ADULT; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RACE; REVIEW; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859020063     PISSN: 00207314     EISSN: 15414469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/HS.42.2.i     Document Type: Review

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