Health Disparities of People Living in the Community on Probation: A Call to Action for Community and Public Health Systems.

Am J Public Health

Lisa B. Puglisi is with the Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT. Shira Shavit is with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.

Published: September 2020

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