Cumulative Structural Disadvantage and Racial Health Disparities: The Pathways of Childhood Socioeconomic Influence

Demography

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1729-1753

  Pais, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Latent class; Life course; Stratification; Work

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUCASIAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910020995     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-014-0330-9     Document Type: Article

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