Addressing Health Disparities Is a Place-Based Issue

Affiliations

¹ Irene Dankwa-Mullan is Acting Deputy Director of the Division of Scientific Programs, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable is Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health.

Editorial

Irene Dankwa-Mullan et al. Am J Public Health. 2016 Apr.

. 2016 Apr;106(4):637-9.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303077.

¹ Irene Dankwa-Mullan is Acting Deputy Director of the Division of Scientific Programs, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable is Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health.

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