Adolescent Survival Expectations: Variations by Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 478-494

  Warner, Tara D ^a   Swisher, Raymond R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; immigration; life course; subjective health; survival expectations

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANCESTRY GROUP; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRANT; NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949526109     PISSN: 00221465     EISSN: 21506000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022146515611730     Document Type: Article

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