Racial and ethnic identification practices in public health data systems in New England

Public Health Reports

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 50-61

  Laws, M Barton ^a,c   Heckscher, Rachel A ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Latin American Health Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CODING; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RACE; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036402764     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3549(04)50108-5     Document Type: Article

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