Racial inequalities in the socioeconomic, demographic and health conditions of elderly from Maranhão State, Legal Amazon, Brazil: a population-based study

Aging with quality of life does not occur equally among the racial groups of Brazilian elderly, and few studies have analyzed this issue in the states of the Brazilian Legal Amazon. The objective of this study was to investigate racial inequalities in the socioeconomic, demographic and health condit...

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Main Authors: Bruno Luciano Carneiro Alves de Oliveira, Alécia Maria da Silva, Raimundo Antonio da Silva, Erika Barbara Abreu Fonseca Thomaz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia 2014-09-01
Series:Acta Amazonica
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aa/v44n3/a06v44n3.pdf