Latino health paradoxes: Empirical evidence, explanations, future research, and implications

Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of América

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 101-113

  Acevedo Garcia, Dolores ^a   Bates, Lisa M ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71943-6_7     Document Type: Chapter

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