Jedi public health: Leveraging contingencies of social identity to grasp and eliminate racial health inequality

Mapping "Race": Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 163-178

  Geronimus, Arline T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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