Why do Americans have shorter life expectancy and worse health than do people in other high-income countries?
Avendano M, Kawachi I.
Annu Rev Public Health. 2014. 35:307-25. PMID: 24422560
Associate Professor
Mauricio Avendano Pabon
Adjunct Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Invited commentary: the search for explanations of the American health disadvantage relative to the English.
Avendano M, Kawachi I.
Am J Epidemiol. 2011 Apr 15. 173(8):866-9; author reply 870. PMID: 21389039
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