Living with sickle cell disease: Traversing 'race' and identity

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 16, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 389-404

  Royal, Charmaine D ^a   Jonassaint, Charles R ^b   Jonassaint, Jude C ^c   De Castro, Laura M ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Black; ethnicity; race; racial identity; sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLACK POPULATION; BLOOD SYSTEM DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; HEALTH BELIEF; HOSPITAL SECTOR; IDEOLOGY; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RACIAL IDENTITY; SOCIAL HISTORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79961156740     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2011.563283     Document Type: Article

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