Community Health Workers: Bringing a New Era of Systems Change to Stimulate Investments in Health Care for Vulnerable US Populations

Affiliations

¹ Hector Balcazar is with the College of Science and Health, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA. Sheba George is with the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.

Editorial

Hector Balcazar et al. Am J Public Health. 2018 Jun.

. 2018 Jun;108(6):720-721.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304427.

¹ Hector Balcazar is with the College of Science and Health, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA. Sheba George is with the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.

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