Targeting health disparities: A model linking upstream determinants to downstream interventions

Health Affairs

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 339-349

  Gehlert, Sarah ^a,b   Sohmer, Dana ^b   Sacks, Tina ^b   Mininger, Charles ^b   McClintock, Martha ^b,c   Olopade, Olufunmilayo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research (CIHDR)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL SERVICE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHICAGO; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; POVERTY; PREMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 41749124974     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.2.339     Document Type: Review

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