Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (with CD

✍ Scribed by Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, Alan R. Nelson

Publisher: National Academies Press
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 781
Category: Library

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Most of the information in this book is available online. I bought it because it was required for a college course, then I never even opened it.

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