The Cradle to Prison Pipeline: An American Health Crisis
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Suppose that during the next decade, a quarter of all the children born in New York, North Carolina, Texas, Colorado, Ohio, and Pennsylvania were infected by a virulent new strain of polio or tuberculosis sometime during their youth. Clearly, our response to a health crisis affecting that many children would be to mobilize the nation’s vast public health resources. Medical laboratories would operate around the clock to develop new vaccines.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Preventing Chronic Disease
دوره 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007