Health disparities: Reframing the problem

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Fuller, Kathleen E ^a  

^a AnthroHealth   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; Pigmentation; Race; Racism; UVB radiation; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HYPERTENSION; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALADJUSTMENT; MELANOMA; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RICKETS; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; PHENOTYPE; PREJUDICE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; UNITED STATES; VITAMIN D;

EID: 0037353263     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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