Residential Segregation, Health, and Health Care: Answering the Latino Question

Race and Social Problems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 262-279

  Anderson, Kathryn Freeman ^a   Fullerton, Andrew S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; Latinos; Race ethnicity; Segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906320999     PISSN: 18671748     EISSN: 18671756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12552-014-9125-2     Document Type: Article

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