What are Health Disparities and Health Equity? We Need to Be Clear

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  2014

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  Public health reports (1974)

• Publication date

  2014-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1177/00333549141291S203PMID 24385658PMCID PMC3863701
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