Preparing for an influenza pandemic: Are some people more equal than others?

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages 19-35

  Rosoff, Philip M ^a   DeCamp, Matthew ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Pandemic influenza; Rationing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054931224     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2011.0098     Document Type: Article

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