A qualitative study of physicians' engagement in reducing healthcare disparities

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1315-1322

  Vanderbilt, Susanne K ^a   Wynia, Matthew K ^b,c,d   Gadon, Margaret ^d,e   Alexander, G Caleb ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; Minority health; Qualitative research analysis; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMPOWERMENT; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK FACTOR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 37349100967     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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