Regional cultures and mortality in America /

"Across the contiguous 48 states, populations in states with more activist civic cultures have lower mortality than states that do not follow this model. Several different factors can be pointed to as causes for this discrepancy - net income, class inequality, and the history of settlement in e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kunitz, Stephen J.
Otros Autores: Zhang, Ning
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Mortality > United States.
Mortality.
Manners and customs.
Mortality
Cultural Characteristics
Socioeconomic Factors
Mortalité.
Mœurs et coutumes.
mortality.
customs (social concepts)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
Manners and customs
United States
Statistics
Statistics.
Statistiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. The National Perspective: 1. Institutions, income, and mortality in the United States; 2. Institutions and the mortality of African Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians; 3. Regional patterns of urban African American mortality
  • Part II. Local Studies: 4. Extremes of mortality in the poorest states; 5. Regional differences in American Indian mortality; 6. Hispanic mortality in New Mexico; 7. Conclusion.

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