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Biological basis of determinants of health.

American journal of public health - 1 Mar 2005

Bortz Walter M

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Clinical medicine and health policy planning find common cause as they seek to define the determinants of health. There is substantial recent interest in the social ecology in which health is embedded. However, biology is where these contributing environmental factors are translated. I provide a new conceptual framework for the biological determinants of health. The old public health rubric of host, agent, and...

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PMID: 15727964
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2003.033324
PMCID: PMC1449189

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