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Healthcare as a civil rights issue Harvard Kennedy School

HALF A CENTURY AFTER the 1964 passage of the Civil Rights Act, racial discrimination endures in many areas of American life, including healthcare. A new paper in Health Affairs, co-authored by Amitabh Chandra, the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), considers the problem of inadequate or inferior health

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