Mapping and measuring social disparities in premature mortality: the impact of census tract poverty within and across Boston neighborhoods, 1999-2001.

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Published in J Urban Health on November 01, 2006

Authors

Jarvis T Chen1, David H Rehkopf, Pamela D Waterman, S V Subramanian, Brent A Coull, Bruce Cohen, Mary Ostrem, Nancy Krieger

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. jarvis@hsph.harvard.edu

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