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Running the Numbers

Does North Carolina's Health Care Workforce Reflect the Diversity of the State's Population?

Julie C. Spero
North Carolina Medical Journal March 2016, 77 (2) 141-145; DOI: https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.77.2.141
Julie C. Spero
research associate, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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