The Embodiment of Inequity: Health Disparities in Aboriginal Canada
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The embodiment of inequity: health disparities in aboriginal Canada.
Health disparities are, first and foremost, those indicators of a relative disproportionate burden of disease on a particular population. Health inequities point to the underlying causes of the disparities, many if not most of which sit largely outside of the typically constituted domain of "health". The literature reviewed for this synthesis document indicates that time and again health dispar...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0008-4263,1920-7476
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403702