Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans

✍ Scribed by Committee on Population, National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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Revised papers originally presented at a workshop held December 1994 in Washington, D.C. Softcover.

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