Why We Need Urban Health Equity Indicators: Integrating Science, Policy, and Community

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Corburn, Jason ^a   Cohen, Alison K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; COMMUNITY LIVING; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; POLITICS; URBAN POPULATION;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84865532569     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001285     Document Type: Article

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