Self-advocacy during the medical encounter: Use of health information and racial/ethnic differences

Medical Care

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 100-109

  Wiltshire, Jacqueline ^a   Cronin, Kate ^a   Sarto, Gloria E ^a   Brown, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Health information seeking; Race ethnicity; Self advocacy

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33644857128     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000196975.52557.b7     Document Type: Article

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