Health disparities between island and mainland Puerto Ricans.

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Published in Rev Panam Salud Publica on May 01, 2006

Authors

Gloria Y F Ho1, Hong Qian, Mimi Y Kim, Thomas A Melnik, Katherine L Tucker, Ivonne Z Jimenez-Velazquez, Robert C Kaplan, Elizabeth T Lee-Rey, Daniel T Stein, Winna Rivera, Thomas E Rohan

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, United States of America. ho@aecom.yu.edu

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