Public health monitoring of privilege and deprivation with the index of concentration at the extremes

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 256-263

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a   Spasojevic, Jasmina ^b   Li, Wenhui ^b   Maduro, Gil ^b   Van Wye, Gretchen ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; NEW YORK; POVERTY; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; NEW YORK CITY; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84955594515     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302955     Document Type: Article

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