'Why don't they come to Pike Street and ask us'?: Black american women's health concerns

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 941-947

  Freedman, Tovia G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black women; Cancer prevention; Clinical trials; Health beliefs; Woman

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICANS; HEALTH STATUS; RACIAL DISPARITY; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RELIGION; SOCIAL VALUES; UNITED STATES; WOMEN;

USA;

EID: 0031850763     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00167-1     Document Type: Article

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