Race-Ethnicity and Health Trajectories: Tests of Three Hypotheses across Multiple Groups and Health Outcomes

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 359-377

  Brown, Tyson H ^a   O'Rand, Angela M ^b   Adkins, Daniel E ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; cumulative disadvantage; functional limitations; health disparities; life course; morbidity; race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RACE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGING; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 84865713775     PISSN: 00221465     EISSN: 21506000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022146512455333     Document Type: Article

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