Racial disparities in access to health care and preventive services between Asian Americans/pacific islanders and non-hispanic whites

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 290-295

  Wen, Xiao Jun ^a   Balluz, Lina ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Access to preventive services; Asian Americans and pacific islanders; Health disparity

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COLONOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; OCCULT BLOOD; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; VACCINATION; ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES; VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES;

EID: 78049431678     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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