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From the Editor

Disparities In Health: Expanding The Focus

HEALTH AFFAIRS HAS a long-standing commitment to publishing new research and perspectives on social disparities and their impacts on health and health care, dating back to our first thematic issue on health and poverty twenty years ago and carried forward to our thematic issue (Sep/Oct) on vulnerable populations in 2007. In the current issue we tighten the focus to highlight the specific contribution of racial and ethnic disparities to health status and health care, but we also broaden the discussion to cover aspects of inequality and dimensions of health that have not been discussed in our pages before.

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James C. Robinson, Editor-In-Chief

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