منابع مشابه
Summarizing Social Disparities in Health
CONTEXT Reporting on health disparities is fundamental for meeting the goal of reducing health disparities. One often overlooked challenge is determining the best way to report those disparities associated with multiple attributes such as income, education, sex, and race/ethnicity. This article proposes an analytical approach to summarizing social disparities in health, and we demonstrate its e...
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OBJECTIVE to describe stressors experienced by women living in an economically disenfranchised urban community and test the relationships between those stressors and women's self-reported health status. METHODS We used a stress process framework to examine the implications of economic divestment and race-based residential segregation on the lives and health of women raising children in Detroi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Milbank Quarterly
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0887-378X,1468-0009
DOI: 10.1111/milq.12001