Special Issue introduction: Place, migration and health

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2055-2059

  Acevedo Garcia, Dolores ^a   Almeida, Joanna ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Simmons School of Social Work   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Immigrant policy; Immigration; Migration; Place; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMIGRATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIGRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACISM; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; WELLBEING;

EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84869491738     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.09.008     Document Type: Editorial

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