Gender Awareness Inventory-VA: A measure of ideology, sensitivity, and knowledge related to women veterans' health care

Sex Roles

Volumn 46, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 247-262

  Salgado, Dawn M ^a   Vogt, Dawne S ^a   King, Lynda A ^a   King, Daniel W ^a  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

employee attitudes; female patients; gender; women's health

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036039281     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020171416038     Document Type: Article

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