Health inequalities among latinos: What do we know and what can we do?

Health and Social Work

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-7

  Stone, Lisa Cacari ^a   Hank Balderrama, C H ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Oregon Department of Health and Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP;

EID: 42449126120     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: 15456854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/33.1.3     Document Type: Review

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