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Adults with Housing Insecurity Have Worse Access to Primary and Preventive Care

Patricia Martin, Winston Liaw, Andrew Bazemore, Anuradha Jetty, Stephen Petterson and Margot Kushel
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine July 2019, 32 (4) 521-530; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2019.04.180374
Patricia Martin
From Unity Health Care, Washington, D.C. (PM); Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences, University of Houston College of Medicine, Houston (WL); Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington D.C. (AB, AJ, SP); Center for Vulnerable Populations, University of California, San Francisco/Zuckerberg San Francisco General, San Francisco (MK).
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Winston Liaw
From Unity Health Care, Washington, D.C. (PM); Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences, University of Houston College of Medicine, Houston (WL); Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington D.C. (AB, AJ, SP); Center for Vulnerable Populations, University of California, San Francisco/Zuckerberg San Francisco General, San Francisco (MK).
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Andrew Bazemore
From Unity Health Care, Washington, D.C. (PM); Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences, University of Houston College of Medicine, Houston (WL); Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington D.C. (AB, AJ, SP); Center for Vulnerable Populations, University of California, San Francisco/Zuckerberg San Francisco General, San Francisco (MK).
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Anuradha Jetty
From Unity Health Care, Washington, D.C. (PM); Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences, University of Houston College of Medicine, Houston (WL); Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington D.C. (AB, AJ, SP); Center for Vulnerable Populations, University of California, San Francisco/Zuckerberg San Francisco General, San Francisco (MK).
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Stephen Petterson
From Unity Health Care, Washington, D.C. (PM); Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences, University of Houston College of Medicine, Houston (WL); Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington D.C. (AB, AJ, SP); Center for Vulnerable Populations, University of California, San Francisco/Zuckerberg San Francisco General, San Francisco (MK).
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Margot Kushel
From Unity Health Care, Washington, D.C. (PM); Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences, University of Houston College of Medicine, Houston (WL); Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington D.C. (AB, AJ, SP); Center for Vulnerable Populations, University of California, San Francisco/Zuckerberg San Francisco General, San Francisco (MK).
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