The fall and rise of US inequities in premature mortality: 1960-2002.

<h4>Background</h4>Debates exist as to whether, as overall population health improves, the absolute and relative magnitude of income- and race/ethnicity-related health disparities necessarily increase-or decrease. We accordingly decided to test the hypothesis that health inequities widen...

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Main Authors: Nancy Krieger, David H Rehkopf, Jarvis T Chen, Pamela D Waterman, Enrico Marcelli, Malinda Kennedy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-02-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18303941/?tool=EBI