The short-term impacts of earned income tax credit disbursement on health

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1884-1894

  Rehkopf, David H ^a   Strully, Kate W ^b   Dow, William H ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Health behaviours; Income; Public policy; Socioeconomic; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH MONITORING; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUBPOPULATION; TAX INCENTIVE;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANNABIS USE; FOOD INSECURITY; FOOD SECURITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCOME; INFECTION; NUTRITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE USE; TAX; UNITED STATES; ADULT; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATERING SERVICE; DIET; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH STATUS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PASSIVE SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

UNITED STATES;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN; PASSIVE SMOKING;

ADULT; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIET; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; INCOME; INCOME TAX; INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84922353344     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyu172     Document Type: Article

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