Wages and Women in Health Care: The Race and Gender Gap

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Henrie M Treadwell. Am J Public Health. 2019 Feb.

. 2019 Feb;109(2):208-209.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304866.

¹ Henrie M. Treadwell is with Community Voices and the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.

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