Why history matters for quantitative target setting: Long-term trends in socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequities in US infant death rates (1960-2010)

Journal of Public Health Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 287-303

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

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

infant mortality; race ethnicity; social determinants of health; socioeconomic; targets; trends

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY GROUP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937842179     PISSN: 01975897     EISSN: 1745655X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jphp.2015.12     Document Type: Article

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