Combining explicit and implicit measures of racial discrimination in health research

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1485-1492

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Carney, Dana ^b   Lancaster, Katie ^c   Waterman, Pamela D ^a   Kosheleva, Anna ^a   Banaji, Mahzarin ^d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERNET; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); UNITED STATES; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 77954526378     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.159517     Document Type: Article

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