Stress, coping, and minority health: Biopsychosocial perspective on ethnic health disparities

Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 377-400

  Myers, Hector F ^a,b   Lewis, Tene T ^a   Parker Dominguez, Tyan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781412976008.n19     Document Type: Chapter

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