Jim crow and premature mortality among the US black and white population, 1960-2009: An age-period-cohort analysis

Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 494-504

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Chen, Jarvis T ^a   Coull, Brent A ^a   Beckfield, Jason ^b   Kiang, Mathew V ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CIVIL RIGHTS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; RISK FACTOR; AFRICAN AMERICAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; RACISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902247486     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000104     Document Type: Article

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