Race-ethnicity and medical services for infertility: Stratified reproduction in a population-based sample of u.s. women

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 493-509

  Greil, Arthur L ^a   McQuillan, Julia ^b   Shreffler, Karina M ^c   Johnson, Katherine M ^d   Slauson Blevins, Kathleen S ^b  

^a ALFRED UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

infertility; medical services; path analysis; race; treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82655189227     PISSN: 00221465     EISSN: 21506000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022146511418236     Document Type: Article

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