Black-white differences in infant mortality in 38 standard metropolitan statistical areas.

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Published in Am J Public Health on November 01, 1991

Authors

A P Polednak1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510.

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