Racial disparities - The need for research and action

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1379-1380

  Lavizzo Mourey, Risa ^a   Knickman, James R ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMICS;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141653829     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe030090     Document Type: Editorial

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