Affirmative Action, Population Health, and the Importance of Opportunity and Hope.

N Engl J Med

From the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and the Opportunity for Health Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Published: September 2023

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