Effects of poverty and lack of insurance on perceptions of racial and ethnic bias in health care

Health Services Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 915-930

  Stepanikova, Irena ^a   Cook, Karen S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Perceived racial and ethnic bias; Poverty; Race; Uninsurance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; RACISM; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 43049111806     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2007.00816.x     Document Type: Article

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