Can non-medical factors contribute to disparities in coronary heart disease treatments?

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 559-574

  Barnhart, Janice M ^a,b   Cohen, Oshra ^b   Wright, Natania ^c   Wylie Rosett, Judith ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Epidemiology and Population Health ^*

^c Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva

Author keywords

Disparities; Health belief model; Heart disease; Non medical factors; Perceptions; Race

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 33748930435     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2006.0097     Document Type: Article

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