Race and Health Policy
- ISBN-10
- 0709946732
- ISBN-13
- 9780709946731
- Category
- Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
- Pages
- 134
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Croom Helm
- Author
- Allan McNaught
Description
This book examines how Britain's National Health Service (NHS) has responded to the migration and settlement of people of African and Asian origin in the years after World War Two.
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