Health Needs Assessment of Plain Populations in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Kirk Miller1, Berwood Yost2, Christina Abbott3, Scottie L. Thompson2, Emily Dlugi4, Zachary W. Adams5, Meryl Schulman6, Nicole Strauss7
1Department of Biology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, USA
2Floyd Institute Center for Opinion Research, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, USA
3Department of Psychology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, USA
4Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA
5Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
6Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, USA
7MGH Institute for Health Policy, Boston, USA

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