Race, Depressive Symptoms, and All-Cause Mortality in the United States

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Assari, Shervin ^a,b   Moazen Zadeh, Ehsan ^c   Lankarani, Maryam Moghani ^b,c   Micol Foster, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

African Americans; chronic medical conditions; depressive symptoms; ethnic groups; mortality; population groups; self rated health

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012192076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00040     Document Type: Article

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