Economic opportunity, health behaviors, and mortality in the United States

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 478-484

  Venkataramani, Atheendar S ^a   Chatterjee, Paula ^b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^c   Tsai, Alexander C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959057493     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302941     Document Type: Article

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