Exploring racial disparities in CHD mortality between blacks and whites across the United States: A geographically weighted regression approach

Health and Place

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1006-1014

  Gebreab, Samson Y ^a   Diez Roux, Ana V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

CHD mortality; Geographically weighted regression; Poverty; Racial disparities; Segregation; Spatial heterogeneity; United States

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH STATUS; MORTALITY; POVERTY; RACIAL DISPARITY; RACIAL SEGREGATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864821736     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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