Open AccessJim Crow and Premature Mortality Among the US Black and White Population, 1960–2009
Author(s) -
Nancy Krieger,
Jarvis T. Chen,
Brent A. Coull,
Jason Beckfield,
Mathew V. Kiang,
Pamela D. Waterman
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0000000000000104
Subject(s) - demography , cohort , population , confidence interval , context (archaeology) , white (mutation) , cohort study , medicine , gerontology , geography , sociology , biology , biochemistry , archaeology , gene
Scant research has analyzed the health impact of abolition of Jim Crow (ie, legal racial discrimination overturned by the US 1964 Civil Rights Act).