Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in an Era of Health Care Reform

Health and Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages e66-e74

  Mitchell, Felicia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordable Care Act; health disparities; Healthy People 2020; race and ethnicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939782102     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: 15456854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlv038     Document Type: Review

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