Social science, equal justice, and public health policy: Lessons from Los Angeles

Journal of Public Health Policy

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  García, Robert ^a   Fenwick, Chad ^b  

^a The City Project   (United States)

^b Los Angeles Unified School District   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC GROUP; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NOTE; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOLOGY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 59849085790     PISSN: 01975897     EISSN: 1745655X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jphp.2008.58     Document Type: Note

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