Metropolitan racial residential segregation and cardiovascular mortality: Exploring pathways

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 499-509

  Greer, Sophia ^a   Kramer, Michael R ^b   Cook Smith, Jessica N ^b   Casper, Michele L ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Economic context; Heart disease; Metropolitan; Racial segregation; Residential segregation; Social context; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RACISM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RACISM; STROKE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84903819710     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-013-9834-7     Document Type: Article

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