INTERSECTIONALITY AND WOMEN’S HEALTH: CHARTING A PATH TO ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES
Advances in gender researchPublished 11 March 2005
Lynn Weber, Deborah Parra‐Medina
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Why do health disparities exist?
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Scholars and activists working both within and outside the massive health-related machinery of government and the private sector and within and outside communities of color address the same fundamental questions: Why do health disparities exist? Why have they persisted over such a long time? What can be done to significantly reduce or eliminate them?
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