An Ethnographic Study of the Social Context of Migrant Health in the United States

Seth M Holmes

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030448

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An Ethnographic Study of the Social Context of Migrant Health in the United States

Seth M Holmes

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America , Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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An Ethnographic Study of the Social Context of Migrant Health in the United States

Seth M Holmes

Published: October 24, 2006
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030448

About the Authors

Seth M Holmes: Affiliations Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America , Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The author was one of the guest editors of the social medicine theme issue in which this article appears; however, he played no part in the review of this manuscript. No other competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SMH designed the study, analyzed the data, enrolled patients, and wrote the paper.

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