Hotep's story: Exploring the wounds of health vulnerability in the US

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 471-497

  Fox, Ken ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health and human rights; Health disparities; Health inequalities; Poverty and child health; Race ethnicity; Social class and health; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INCOME; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MASCULINITY; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; REVIEW; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MINORITY GROUPS; POVERTY; PRINCIPLE-BASED ETHICS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0036951643     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021320815915     Document Type: Review

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