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Tim B Heaton1, Benjamin Crookston2, Hayley Pierce3

  • 1Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, 2033 JFSB, Provo, UT, 84602, USA. tim_heaton@byu.edu.

International Journal for Equity in Health
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AfricaChildren’s healthSocioeconomic inequality

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