Should the mission of epidemiology include the eradication of poverty?

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Published in Lancet on September 05, 1998

Authors

K J Rothman1, H O Adami, D Trichopoulos

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University Medical Center, MA, USA.

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