Gender awareness among veterans administration health-care workers: Existing strengths and areas for improvement

Women and Health

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 65-83

  Vogt, Dawne S ^a,b   Stone, Erika R ^b   Salgado, Dawn M ^a   King, Lynda A ^a,b   King, Daniel W ^a,b   Savarese, Vincent W ^c  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes of health personnel; Gender; Women veterans; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SEX ROLE;

EID: 0035694914     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J013v34n04_05     Document Type: Article

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