Addressing health disparities in chronic kidney disease.

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Published in Int J Environ Res Public Health on December 11, 2014

Authors

Ta-Chien Chan1, I-Chun Fan2, Michael Shi-Yung Liu3, Ming-Daw Su4, Po-Huang Chiang5

Author Affiliations

1: Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei City 115, Taiwan. dachianpig@gmail.com.
2: Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei City 115, Taiwan. mhfanbbc@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw.
3: Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei City 115, Taiwan. liumike@gate.sinica.edu.tw.
4: Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 106, Taiwan. sumd@ntu.edu.tw.
5: Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County 350, Taiwan. chiangp@nhri.org.tw.

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