Education reporting and classification on death certificates in the United States

Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2: Data Evaluation and Methods Research

Volumn , Issue 151, 2012, Pages

  Rostron, Brian L ^a   Boies, John L ^a   Arias, Elizabeth ^a  

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Author keywords

Health disparities; Life expectancy; Mortality; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871633957     PISSN: 00832057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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