Organ donation survey results of a Buffalo, New York, African-American community

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 979-986

  Minniefield, William J ^a   Muti, Paola ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudinal health; Minority health; Organ donation transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0036833860     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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