The "Slave health deficit:" The case for reparations to bring health parity to African Americans

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-5

  Hood, Rodney G ^a  

^a National Medical Association   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CIVIL RIGHTS; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HISTORY; HUMAN; NEGRO; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CIVIL RIGHTS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035529960     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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