Ethnic inequalities in health: Does it matter where you have migrated to?

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 216-218

  Agyemang, Charles ^a   Kunst, Anton E ^a   Stronks, Karien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77953662143     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2010.481821     Document Type: Editorial

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