The health consequences of racial discrimination: A study of African Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 148-153

  Broman, Clifford L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health; Racial Discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030445879     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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