Paved With Good Intentions: Do Public Health and Human Service Providers Contribute to Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health?
Michelle van Ryn, PhD, MPH and
Steven S. Fu, MD, MSCE
Michelle van Ryn is with the Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Department of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis. Steven S. Fu is with the Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Section of General Internal Medicine, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota.

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FIGURE 1 Proposed mechanisms through which health and human service providers can influence race/ethnicity disparities in treatment.
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