Immigration and the health of U.S. black adults: does country of origin matter?

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Social Science & Medicine (1967)

• Publication date

  2011-11-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.026PMID 21982630
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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