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Insurance Types, Usual Sources of Health Care, and Perceived Discrimination

Héctor E. Alcalá, Amanda E. Ng, Sujoy Gayen and Alexander N. Ortega
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine July 2020, 33 (4) 580-591; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2020.04.190419
Héctor E. Alcalá
From the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Program in Public Health, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (HEA, SG); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UMD School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (AEN); Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University Department of Health Management and Policy, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (ANO).
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Amanda E. Ng
From the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Program in Public Health, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (HEA, SG); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UMD School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (AEN); Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University Department of Health Management and Policy, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (ANO).
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Sujoy Gayen
From the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Program in Public Health, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (HEA, SG); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UMD School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (AEN); Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University Department of Health Management and Policy, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (ANO).
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Alexander N. Ortega
From the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Program in Public Health, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (HEA, SG); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UMD School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (AEN); Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University Department of Health Management and Policy, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (ANO).
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