Environmental Racism and Climate Change - Missed Diagnoses.

N Engl J Med

From the Center for Social Justice and Health Equity and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - all in Boston; and the Harvard Global Health Institute, Cambridge, MA.

Published: September 2021

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