Measuring race and ethnicity: Why and how?

JAMA

Volumn 292, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1612-1614

  Winker, Margaret A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALOID RACE; CAUCASIAN; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONGOLOID RACE; NEGRO; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN COLOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; POPULATION GENETICS; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURE; EDITORIAL POLICIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 4644238001     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.292.13.1612     Document Type: Editorial

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