Prejudice among health care workers toward injecting drug users with hepatitis C: Does greater contact lead to less prejudice?

International Journal of Drug Policy

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 381-387

  Brener, Loren ^a   von Hippel, William ^b   Kippax, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contact; Health care workers; Hepatitis C; Implicit attitudes; Injecting drug use; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC OPINION; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 34548473826     PISSN: 09553959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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