Racial and ethnic disparities in self-assessed health status: Evidence from the National Survey of Families and Households

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 293-303

  Ren, Xinhua Steve ^a   Amick, Benjamin C ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Self assessed health status; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; HEALTH STATUS; NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS (1988); RACIAL DISPARITY; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CUBA; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERTO RICO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CUBA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PUERTO RICO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

USA;

EID: 0030236004     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.1996.9961798     Document Type: Review

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