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Previous Volume 353:104-105 July 7, 2005 Number 1

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By Leiyu Shi and Gregory D. Stevens. 312 pp. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2005. $58. ISBN 0-7879-6958-3.

Recent findings and trends associated with health disparities, along with their causes, consequences, and potential solutions, are reviewed in Vulnerable Populations in the United States. It is an excellent primer for undergraduates and graduate students in public health and for medical students interested in vulnerable populations and health disparities.

The first chapter introduces a general conceptual framework for studying vulnerable populations. After reviewing the many models in the literature that have helped elucidate the social and behavioral determinants of health, Shi and Stevens propose a model of vulnerability that has been developed as an interaction of risk factors, access . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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