Examining racial and ethnic disparities in site of usual source of care

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-30

  Gaskin, Darrell J ^a,b,e   Arbelaez, Jose J ^c   Brown, Jorielle R ^a,f   Petras, Hanno ^a,b,e   Wagner, Fernando A ^a,d   Cooper, Lisa A ^a,b  

^a Morgan Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthcare disparities; Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs; Minority health; Patient preferences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MINORITY GROUP; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE;

ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846577001     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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