County characteristics and racial and ethnic disparities in the use of preventive services

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 704-712

  Benjamins, Maureen R ^a   Kirby, James B ^b   Bond Huie, Stephanie A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Agy for Hlthcare Res and Quality   (United States)

^c SW Education Development Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual effects; Ethnicity; Preventive health care; Race; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; NEGRO; PREDICTION; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 4444281665     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.02.039     Document Type: Article

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