Survival differences among native-born and foreign-born older adults in the united states

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Dupre, Matthew E ^a,b   Gu, Danan ^c   Vaupel, James W ^d  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOREIGN BORN; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; POPULATION RESEARCH; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; MEDICARE; MIGRATION; STATISTICS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICARE; POPULATION GROUPS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861204201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037177     Document Type: Article

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