Rosenwaike, Ira; Hempstead, Katherine - In: Social Science & Medicine 29 (1989) 7, pp. 885-889
This paper compares the mortality experience of foreign-born Irish, Italians and Jews in New York City in 1979-1981. For the Irish and Italian groups, 1980 census data were used to calculate age-specific and age-standardized death rates. For the Jewish group, denominator data were not available,...