The color of health: Skin color, ethnoracial classification, and discrimination in the health of Latin Americans.
Latin America is one of the most ethnoracially heterogeneous regions of the world. Despite this, health disparities research in Latin America tends to focus on gender, class and regional health differences while downplaying ethnoracial differences. Few scholars have conducted studies of ethnoracial...
| Publicado en: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 116; pp. 241 - 251 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Sep2014
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