Deconstructing disproportionality: Views from multiple community stakeholders

Child Welfare

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 37-58

  Dettlaff, Alan J ^a   Rycraft, Joan R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD WELFARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FOSTER CARE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEGRO; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD WELFARE; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FOCUS GROUPS; FOSTER HOME CARE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PREJUDICE; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS;

EID: 58149390025     PISSN: 00094021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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