Ethnicity has overtaken race in medical science: MEDLINE-based comparison of trends in the USA and the rest of the world, 1965-2005

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1682-1683

  Afshari, Reza ^a   Bhopal, Raj S ^b  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETIOLOGY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GROWTH RATE; RACE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

AGE; ARTICLE; ETHNICITY; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MEDLINE; PUBLISHING; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649772075     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyp382     Document Type: Article

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