Income inequality and health
Journal of Policy Analysis and ManagementPublished 1 January 2001
Jennifer M. Mellor, Jeffrey Milyo
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This paper presents a meta-modelling framework for estimating the likelihood of future recurrence of infectious disease outbreaks in the United States and suggests that the number of outbreaks is likely to be higher than previously thought.
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TYPE="ORG" OID="af2" CNY="US">Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
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