Dead wrong: the growing list of racial/ethnic disparities in childhood mortality

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Children's Health System of Texas, Dallas, Texas. Electronic address: glenn.flores@utsouthwestern.edu.
² Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma-Tulsa School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Editorial

Glenn Flores et al. J Pediatr. 2015 Apr.

. 2015 Apr;166(4):790-3.

doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2015.02.001.

¹ Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Children's Health System of Texas, Dallas, Texas. Electronic address: glenn.flores@utsouthwestern.edu.
² Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma-Tulsa School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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