Urban health: Discipline or field - Does it matter?

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-167

  Guyer, Bernard ^a,b   Gibbons, M C ^b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HUMANS; SPECIALISM; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 3042582272     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jurban/jth100     Document Type: Editorial

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