Understanding the Role of Structural Racism in Sleep Disparities: a Call to Action and Methodological Considerations

Overview

Journal Sleep

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2022 Aug 23

PMID 35999030

Authors

Dayna A Johnson

Benjamin Reiss

Philip Cheng

Chandra L Jackson

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