Sun, skin and the deadly politics of medical racism

Melanie Etti¹, MyMai Yuan², Jesse B Bump^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA bump@hsph.harvard.edu.
⁴ Bergen Center for Ethics and Priority Setting, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Editorial

Melanie Etti et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2023 Aug.

. 2023 Aug;8(8):e013616.

doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013616.

Melanie Etti¹, MyMai Yuan², Jesse B Bump^{3

4}

¹ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA bump@hsph.harvard.edu.
⁴ Bergen Center for Ethics and Priority Setting, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

No abstract available

Keywords: Cancer; Health policy; Medical demography; Public Health.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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