Weight Prejudice and Medical Policy: Support for an Ambiguously Discriminatory Policy Is Influenced by Prejudice-Colored Glasses

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-133

  Brochu, Paula M ^a   Esses, Victoria M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH POLICY; PERCEPTION; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77950782753     PISSN: 15297489     EISSN: 15302415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2009.01175.x     Document Type: Article

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