A health disparity refers to a higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or mortality experienced by one group relative to others attributable to multiple factors including socioeconomic status, environmental factors, insufficient access to health care, individual risk factors and behaviors and inequalities in education.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Author(s): J. Sunil Rao
Illustration(s): 130 Halftones, color; 130 Illustrations, color
Number of pages: 280
Collection: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series