Costs of environmentally attributable diseases in the Arab-American community in the Detroit area.
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From the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Ann Arbor (LMZ, JN); Arab-American Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), Dearborn (KS, AH, HJ); Department of Family Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit (HJ); Michigan. Lauren M. Zajac, BS; Jerome O. Nriagu, PhD, DSc; Kathryn Savoie, PhD; Adnan Hammad, PhD; Hikmet Jamil, MD, PhD
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Ethnicity & disease
دوره 15 1 Suppl 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005