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Health status of prisoners in Canada
Narrative review
Fiona Kouyoumdjian, Andrée Schuler, Flora I. Matheson and Stephen W. Hwang
Canadian Family Physician March 2016, 62 (3) 215-222;
Fiona Kouyoumdjian
Postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ont, and a family physician at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre in Hamilton, Ont.
MD PhD CCFP FRCPCAndrée Schuler
Research Coordinator, Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St Michael’s Hospital.
PhDFlora I. Matheson
Research scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St Michael’s Hospital.
PhDStephen W. Hwang
Research scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St Michael’s Hospital and a general internist in the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
MD MPH FRCPC
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Vol. 62, Issue 3
1 Mar 2016
Health status of prisoners in Canada
Fiona Kouyoumdjian, Andrée Schuler, Flora I. Matheson, Stephen W. Hwang
Canadian Family Physician Mar 2016, 62 (3) 215-222;
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