Affordable Housing: A Key Lever to Community Health for Older Americans.

Am J Public Health

William A. Vega is Provost Professor of Social Work, Preventive Medicine, Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Gerontology, and Executive Director of the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Steven P. Wallace is Professor and Chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences, and Associate Director of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Policy Research, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Published: April 2016

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