Racial disparities in context: a multilevel analysis of neighborhood variations in poverty and excess mortality among black populations in Massachusetts.

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Published in Am J Public Health on February 01, 2005

Authors

S V Subramanian1, Jarvis T Chen, David H Rehkopf, Pamela D Waterman, Nancy Krieger

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Kresge 7th Floor, Boston MA 02115-6096, USA. svsubram@hsph.harvard.edu

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