Associations between socioeconomic status and allostatic load: Effects of neighborhood poverty and tests of mediating pathways

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1706-1714

  Schulz, Amy J ^a   Mentz, Graciela ^a   Lachance, Laurie ^a   Johnson, Jonetta ^a   Gaines, Causandra ^b   Israel, Barbara A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Brightmoor Community Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOSTASIS; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLOSTASIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84865676770     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300412     Document Type: Review

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