Death by segregation: Does the dimension of racial segregation matter?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Yang, Tse Chuan ^a,c   Matthews, Stephen A ^b,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c 315 Arts and Sciences Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUCASIAN; CENTRALIZATION; DEATH; ETHNIC GROUP; EXPOSURE; FILTRATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; RACISM; UNITED STATES; HEALTH; LEAST SQUARE ANALYSIS;

DEATH; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; RACISM;

EID: 84946962331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138489     Document Type: Article

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