Measuring and monitoring progress toward health equity: Local challenges for public health

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Shah, Snehal N ^a,d   Russo, Elizabeth T ^a   Earl, Tara R ^b   Kuo, Tony ^c  

^a Boston Public Health Commissions   (United States)

^b ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84921682596     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd11.130440     Document Type: Article

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