Improving the health of African Americans in the USA: An overdue opportunity for social justice

Public Health Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Noonan, Allan S ^a   Velasco Mondragon, Hector Eduardo ^b   Wagner, Fernando A ^c  

^a United States Public Health Services   (United States)

^b Touro University   (United States)

^c MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Ethnicity and health; Health disparities; Social determinants of health; Social justice

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVESTMENT; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RACISM; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATISTICS;

EID: 84992188289     PISSN: 03010422     EISSN: 21076952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40985-016-0025-4     Document Type: Review

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