Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 18, Issue 7 , Pages 552-559 , July 2008

Neighborhood Poverty and American Indian Infant Death: Are The Effects Identifiable?

  • Pamela Jo Johnson, MPH, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Pamela Jo Johnson, MPH, PhD, State Health Access Data Assistance Center, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 2221 University Avenue, Suite 345, Minneapolis, MN 55414. Tel.: 612-624-1406; fax: 612-624-1493.
    • ,
  • J. Michael Oakes, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    • ,
  • Douglas L. Anderton, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Social and Demographic Research Institute and Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Received 10 July 2007 ,Accepted 27 February 2008.

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 Financial support for this study was provided in part by a Minority Health Statistics Dissertation Fellowship granted to Pamela Jo Johnson by the Center for Excellence in Health Statistics (a collaboration between the Center for Health Statistics, Minnesota Department of Health and the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota) and by NHLBI grant R01-HL61573 (PI: J. Michael Oakes).

PII: S1047-2797(08)00056-2

doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2008.02.007

Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 18, Issue 7 , Pages 552-559 , July 2008

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