A History of the Movement to Address Health Disparities

Urban Health: Combating Disparities with Local Data

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-22

  Dell, Jade L ^a   Whitman, Steven ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; Health policy; Health programs; Healthy people movement; Public health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921764556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199731190.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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