Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in TRICARE
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Racial and ethnic disparities in health care.
T he Agency for Health Care Research and Quality will soon release its annual report on racial and ethnic disparities in health care. In the three years since that report first appeared, there has been some slow improvement in some areas for some ethnic groups. But there is still troubling evidence that racial and ethnic disparities still pervade health care in the U.S. despite many efforts to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the National Medical Association
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0027-9684
DOI: 10.1016/s0027-9684(15)30975-5