The Social Determinants of Health: It's Time to Consider the Causes of the Causes

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  2014

• Venue

  Public health reports (1974)

• Publication date

  2014-01-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1177/00333549141291S206PMID 24385661PMCID PMC3863696
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