Reliability of race assessment based on the race of the ascendants: Across-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-5

  Fuchs, Sandra C ^a   Guimarães, Sylvia M ^a   Sortica, Cristine ^a   Wainberg, Fernanda ^a   Dias, Karine O ^a   Ughini, Mariana ^a   Castro, José Augusto S ^a   Fuchs, Flavio D ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEGRO; OBSERVATION; PLESIOMORPHY; RACE; RELIABILITY; SELF EVALUATION; SKIN COLOR; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PEDIGREE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BRAZIL; COLOR; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PEDIGREE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SKIN;

EID: 18744415163     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-2-1     Document Type: Article

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