Racial disparities in life expectancy in Brazil: Challenges from a multiracial society

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2156-2162

  Chiavegatto Filho, Alexandre Dias Porto ^a,b   Beltrań Sánchez, Hiram ^c   Kawachi, Ichiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; BLACK PERSON; BRAZIL; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907833276     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301565     Document Type: Article

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