Racial disparities in knowledge of stroke and heart attack risk factors and warning signs among Michigan adults

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 128-134

  Fussman, Chris ^a   Rafferty, Ann P ^a   Reeves, Mathew J ^b   Zackery, Shannon ^a   Lyon Callo, Sarah ^a   Anderson, Beth ^a  

^a MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Disparity; Heart attack; Race; Risk factors; Stroke; Warning signs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; HEART INFARCTION; RACISM; STROKE; UNITED STATES; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 67651208745     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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