Immigrants and health care: sources of vulnerability.

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Published in Health Aff (Millwood) on September 12, 2007

Authors

Kathryn Pitkin Derose1, José J Escarce, Nicole Lurie

Author Affiliations

1: RAND, Santa Monica, California, USA. derose@rand.org

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