Can Public Health Narrow the Health Gap Between the United States and Its Peer Nations? A Public Health of Consequence, January 2018

Affiliations

¹ Sandro Galea is with the School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA. Roger D. Vaughan is an AJPH associate editor and is with The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.

Editorial

Sandro Galea et al. Am J Public Health. 2018 Jan.

. 2018 Jan;108(1):25-26.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304173.

¹ Sandro Galea is with the School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA. Roger D. Vaughan is an AJPH associate editor and is with The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.

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Meeting the Institute of Medicine's 2030 US Life Expectancy Target.
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