Race and social attitudes about sickle cell disease

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 16, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 423-429

  Bediako, Shawn M ^a   Moffitt, Kimberly R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; media; race; sickle cell disease; social perceptions

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SYSTEM DISORDER; COGNITION; ETHNICITY; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICINE; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RACE; SOCIAL THEORY;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC OPINION; RACE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOCIAL MARKETING;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL MARKETING;

EID: 79961140330     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2011.552712     Document Type: Article

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