A life course approach to inequality: Examining racial/ethnic differences in the relationship between early life socioeconomic conditions and adult health among men

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 313-320

  Hargrove, Taylor W ^a   Brown, Tyson H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health; Life course; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICAN; MODEL; RACE; RETIREMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; LIFE EVENT; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962526498     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: 19450826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18865/ed.25.3.313     Document Type: Article

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