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. 2015 Aug 11:3:195.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00195. eCollection 2015.

Changing Healthcare Policies: Implications for Income, Education, and Health Disparity

Tetsuji Yamada  1 , Chia-Ching Chen  2 , J J Naddeo  3 , Joseph R Harris 3rd  4
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Changing Healthcare Policies: Implications for Income, Education, and Health Disparity

Tetsuji Yamada et al. Front Public Health. .
No abstract available

Keywords: education effect; health disparity; income effect.

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Graphical representation of the effect of income and education on various health disparity indicators.
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