This paper uses the records of the Union Army to compare the older age mortality experience of the first black and white cohorts who reached middle and late ages in the twentieth century. Blacks faced a greater risk of death from all causes, especially in large cities, from infectious and parasitic diseases, from genito-urinary disease, and from heart disease, particularly valvular heart disease. Blacks' greater risk of death was the result both of the worse conditions in which they lived at the time of their deaths and of their lifelong poorer nutritional status and higher incidence of infectious disease. Compared to the 1821-40 black cohort, the 1841-50 black cohort was both under greater stress at a young age and had higher older age mor...
Social scientists have long been interested in the ways that early life and educational attainment a...
The purpose of this paper is to describe trends in sex differences in mortality in young adulthood a...
To assess black-white differences in disability and morbidity in the last years of life, the authors...
In this paper, we examine black-white differences in cause-specific mortality during the 1980s when ...
A population-based cohort of 1,598 urban residents, aged 65 years and over, was studied in 1975, and...
those of the author alone and do not reflect the views of the sponsoring institutions. The evidence ...
This paper investigates the social and economic circumstances of childhood that predict the probabil...
This dissertation presents three research studies in African American social demography. Chapter 1 e...
Advances in medicine and surgery over the last 100 years have resulted in improved treatments for al...
The three essays which comprise this dissertation examine particular features of mortality patterns ...
Objective. To test the relationship between racial segregation and mortality using a multidimensiona...
textabstractOBJECTIVES: This study determined the degree to which Black-White differences in i...
Objectives. Optimistic predictions for the Healthy People 2010 goals of eliminating racial/ethnic di...
OBJECTIVES: We sought to assess whether the disparity in mortality rates between Black and White men...
In this essay, we ask whether the distributions of life expectancy and mortality have become general...
Social scientists have long been interested in the ways that early life and educational attainment a...
The purpose of this paper is to describe trends in sex differences in mortality in young adulthood a...
To assess black-white differences in disability and morbidity in the last years of life, the authors...
In this paper, we examine black-white differences in cause-specific mortality during the 1980s when ...
A population-based cohort of 1,598 urban residents, aged 65 years and over, was studied in 1975, and...
those of the author alone and do not reflect the views of the sponsoring institutions. The evidence ...
This paper investigates the social and economic circumstances of childhood that predict the probabil...
This dissertation presents three research studies in African American social demography. Chapter 1 e...
Advances in medicine and surgery over the last 100 years have resulted in improved treatments for al...
The three essays which comprise this dissertation examine particular features of mortality patterns ...
Objective. To test the relationship between racial segregation and mortality using a multidimensiona...
textabstractOBJECTIVES: This study determined the degree to which Black-White differences in i...
Objectives. Optimistic predictions for the Healthy People 2010 goals of eliminating racial/ethnic di...
OBJECTIVES: We sought to assess whether the disparity in mortality rates between Black and White men...
In this essay, we ask whether the distributions of life expectancy and mortality have become general...
Social scientists have long been interested in the ways that early life and educational attainment a...
The purpose of this paper is to describe trends in sex differences in mortality in young adulthood a...
To assess black-white differences in disability and morbidity in the last years of life, the authors...