Racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and access disparities in the use of preventive services among women

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 475-484

  Sambamoorthi, Usha ^a   McAlpine, Donna D ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Blood pressure monitoring; Cholesterol screening; Mammography; Papanicolaou smear; Preventive health services; Women

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIPID ANALYSIS; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0142169464     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-7435(03)00172-5     Document Type: Article

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