John B. McKinlay, Sonja M. McKinlay, The Questionable Contribution of Medical Measures to the Decline of Mortality in the United States in the Twentieth Century, The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Summer, 1977), pp. 405-428
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