Understanding ethnic disparities in the use of total joint arthroplasty: Application of the health belief model

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 102-108

  Ang, Dennis C ^a,c   Monahan, Patrick O ^a   Cronan, Terry A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTHRITIS RELATED HEALTH BELIEF INSTRUMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH BELIEF MODEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS;

EID: 38649085965     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.23243     Document Type: Article

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