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Addressing health-related interventions to immigrants: migrant-specific or diversity-sensitive?

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  1. Department of Epidemiology and International Public Health, School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, P.O. Box 10 01 31, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Oliver Razum & Jacob Spallek

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Razum, O., Spallek, J. Addressing health-related interventions to immigrants: migrant-specific or diversity-sensitive?. Int J Public Health 59, 893–895 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-014-0584-4

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