Primary Care Experience and Racial Disparities in Self-Reported Health Status
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Primary care experience and racial disparities in self-reported health status.
CONTEXT Access to high quality primary care was identified by Healthy People 2010 as one of the mechanisms through which racial and ethnic disparities in health might be reduced. Despite the well-established connections between good primary care and health, the scientific evidence on whether good primary care can reduce racial disparities in health is sparse. OBJECTIVE To examine whether bett...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1557-2625,1558-7118
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.17.6.443