Coronavirus Disease Health Care Delivery Impact on African Americans

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2020, Pages 756-758

  Chaturvedi, Rahul ^a   Gabriel, Rodney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

delivery of health care; health impact assessment; infectious disease medicine; mortality; public health

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COVID-19; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SARS-COV-2; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85085762607     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2020.179     Document Type: Review

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