Maternal educational attainment at birth promotes future self-rated health of white but not black youth: A 15-year cohort of a national sample

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Assari, Shervin ^a,b,c   Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard ^b,c   Mincy, Ronald B ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Columbia School of Social Work ^*  (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Ethnicity; Race; Self rated health; Social class; Social determinants of health; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; JUVENILE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL CAPACITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; WELLBEING;

EID: 85114271804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jcm7050093     Document Type: Article

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