Assessing the nation's progress toward elimination of disparities in health care: The national healthcare disparities report

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 195-200

  Siegel, Sari ^a,b   Moy, Ernest ^b   Burstin, Helen ^a  

^a Center for Primary Care   (United States)

^b AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Ethnicity; Health care; Race; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY;

EID: 1642347838     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.30221.x     Document Type: Review

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