Trust in the health care system and the use of preventive health services by older black and white adults

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1293-1299

  Musa, Donald ^a   Schulz, Richard ^a   Harris, Roderick ^b   Silverman, Myrna ^b   Thomas, Stephen B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEGRO; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRUST; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650741627     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.123927     Document Type: Article

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