Health information seeking and use outside of the medical encounter: Is it associated with race and ethnicity?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 176-184

  Rooks, Ronica N ^a   Wiltshire, Jacqueline C ^b   Elder, Keith ^c   BeLue, Rhonda ^d   Gary, Lisa C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Health information seeking and use; Patient self management; Patient doctor interaction; Race; USA

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TREATMENT; ETHNIC MINORITY; ETHNICITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LATINO PEOPLE; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SEEKING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855981549     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.09.040     Document Type: Article

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