Do female primary care physicians practise preventive care differently from their male colleagues?

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 42, Issue DEC., 1996, Pages 2370-2379

  Woodward, Christel A ^a,b   Hutchison, Brian G ^a,b   Abelson, Julia ^a,b   Norman, Geoffrey ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0030339106     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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