'Population profiling' and public health risk: When and how should we use race/ethnicity?

Critical Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-74

  Ellison, George T H ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SOCIAL CLASS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 21244504609     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581590500048416     Document Type: Article

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