State-level minimum wage and heart disease death rates in the United States, 1980–2015: A novel application of marginal structural modeling

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 112, Issue , 2018, Pages 97-103

  Van Dyke, Miriam E ^a   Komro, Kelli A ^a   Shah, Monica P ^a   Livingston, Melvin D ^b   Kramer, Michael R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Health status disparities; Heart diseases; Income; Public policy; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEART DISEASE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HUMAN; MORTALITY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC POLICY; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85045470057     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.04.009     Document Type: Article

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