Excess Mortality among Blacks and Whites in the United States
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- 21 November 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 335 (21), 1552-1558
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199611213352102
Abstract
Although the general relations between race, socioeconomic status, and mortality in the United States are well known, specific patterns of excess mortality are not well understood.Keywords
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